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Former head of Dubbo Hospital Brian Semmler. PHOTO: DUBBO
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FORMER Dubbo Hospital chief executive officer of 18 years and Private Hospitals Association of NSW executive director, Brian Semmler, says changes in the hospital system in the past 60 years have done a disservice to rural and regional communities and given GPs no reason to relocate to places where they’re most needed. “Doctors have been driven out of a ridiculous system. The powers that be will argue, ‘Well, we can’t get GPs to go out to these places,’” Mr Semmler said. “Why can’t they get them? No job interest whatsoever. We all need satisfaction in our work, to use our skills that we were trained for. “They may have to introduce a system – a bit like education did – by saying, ‘Right, for the first three years, you’re going to go
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out there. The system has paid a good percentage of your training, you repay the system, by going and working out there.’ They might want to stay,” he said. “How many times over the years have nurses come to the country, married someone and ended up staying here to start a family? “The powers that be might say you can’t tell people where to go, but you can – if that’s a condition they enter the university with, or that they come out of the university with,” Mr Semmler said. “It sounds dictatorial but we need a solution to this problem. We need to have politicians and bureaucrats with the intestinal fortitude to say, ‘This is it.’ “I think we have a wonderful system compared to other places, but we could do better.”
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