[talk-au] Are Health Centres, hospitals

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 at 20:25, Ewen Hill <ewen.hill at gmail.com> wrote:

> We also have the grey area of Bush Nursing Centres that are clearly not
> hospitals but are the best place to head to in an emergency and may be the
> difference when you are looking at two equal sized communities. The ten
> staff sounds arbitrary.
>
> Shouldn't the difference be based on the capability of the premises to
> resuscitate, handle compound fractures and prolong life until the patient
> can be moved to a more appropriate facility rather than a "must have ten
> medical staff"?
>

Good points, Ewen.

Thanks, everyone - you've convinced me that I was looking at it the wrong
way & that these type of facilities should stay as hospitals.

  Further more, should it be defined as "an official hospital or the first
> place of medical support in a rural setting"?
>

You're probably correct but I think we'd have issues changing the main
definition of hospital, as it wouldn't suit the Western European / US point
of view :-(

As Cleary mentioned earlier: "Perhaps the Australian Guidelines should
permit the "hospital" tag where that is consistent with usage of the term
by the local community, would be a lot easier to do, so I'll make that
amendment if there's no major objection?

Thanks

Graeme
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