Bendigo Hospital, Bendigo
Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services Delivery Warren Snowdon held a roundtable health consultation at Bendigo Hospital in Victoria, on 19 January 2010.
John Mulder, Chief Executive of Bendigo Hospital, introduced Minister Snowdon to the audience which included health care professionals from the Loddon-Mallee region: primary health care and psychiatric service providers, and representatives from the Division of General Practice and from both large and small hospitals.
The main themes of the consultation included:
- Attraction and retention of GPs and allied health professionals
- Governance of the new system and consideration that one size might not necessarily fit all
- The needs of small hospitals servicing communities of less than 3,000 people.
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