Prevention Taskforce Misses Opportunities, Australian Medical Association

AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said the Government’s Prevention Health Taskforce has missed two opportunities - firstly, the chance to get on with the job and prevent the human damage and save money, and secondly, ignoring direct clinical involvement. Dr Capolingua said even though it has identified $56 billion of savings can be made, we have to wait over 14 months before there’s some action when there are already widely-recognised strategies that can work.

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Filed under: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs on April 11th, 2008