VICDOC Summer 2023 - Magazine - Page 63
T H E P O L I CY D ES K
AMAV
ADV CACY
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policy issue you would
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our priorities
AMAV ’s Senior Policy Adviser,
Lewis Horton, walks us through
our main advocacy achievements
of 2023, and what we’ll be
focusing on in 2024.
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AMA Victoria’s core advocacy priorities throughout
2023 centred on investing in public hospitals, general
practice, and mental health. In addressing these three
essential and interlinked components of our health
system, the key focus of our advocacy was in ensuring
a healthy, sustainable medical workforce. To this end,
in our many meetings with the Victorian Government
and Department of Health we explained that particular
attention must be paid to workforce burnout, funding,
and planning. Our advocacy priorities document noted
that we can no longer act in a ‘state of emergency’.
Instead, we must turn our focus to building a
sustainable workforce for the post-pandemic world.
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