Remember, these antibiotics come out of ED budget.... So less money for other Ed necessities.
If the patient is discharged home and doesn't get their meds at all, that doesn't come out of ED budget. Sure they bounce back sicker, but no direct financial penalty to ED.
So they've created an incentive to NOT do the best thing for the patient.
It's insane, but look at all their other policy where evidence is dismissed (if even acknowledged to begin with) in favour of idology or just 'reckons'. Have had some interaction with the public hospitals in the past couple of weeks, supporting a relative who was admitted, and the one constant has been brilliant staff, working so hard, in plainly under-resourced facilities.
I can remember in the 80's when the prescription charges were first introduced. I was gobsmacked that I now needed to pay for the drugs that kept me alive. As an asthmatic I knew I needed them and luckily for me I could afford the cost. There are many people in Aotearoa who couldn't back then, and still can't now
Remember, these antibiotics come out of ED budget.... So less money for other Ed necessities.
If the patient is discharged home and doesn't get their meds at all, that doesn't come out of ED budget. Sure they bounce back sicker, but no direct financial penalty to ED.
So they've created an incentive to NOT do the best thing for the patient.
It's inhumane and fiscally insane.
It's insane, but look at all their other policy where evidence is dismissed (if even acknowledged to begin with) in favour of idology or just 'reckons'. Have had some interaction with the public hospitals in the past couple of weeks, supporting a relative who was admitted, and the one constant has been brilliant staff, working so hard, in plainly under-resourced facilities.
Just so foolish and short-sighted and callous. I too am so very angry about what this government is doing to people
I can remember in the 80's when the prescription charges were first introduced. I was gobsmacked that I now needed to pay for the drugs that kept me alive. As an asthmatic I knew I needed them and luckily for me I could afford the cost. There are many people in Aotearoa who couldn't back then, and still can't now