NSW: Health services at risk over UMP = 2
Dr Phelps said certain groups of doctors, including neurosurgeons working privately,may not be able to work from today without assurances about their future.
"The federal government needs to have a plan in place, I would say within the next24 hours, unless they're expecting to lose those essential services they're saying wewon't lose," she said.
She said many doctors would have no choice but to stop working in some high risk areasuntil they had a degree of certainty.
"That certainty requires a plan ... which is acceptable to the medical profession andto the community." she said.
"What we need is a short term plan that will save essential services in the short term,as in today, tomorrow and next week."
Dr Phelps said public hospital services would continue and emergency services wereunlikely to be affected.
However non-emergency surgery could suffer and the load on the public system was likelyto increase, she said.
"Anybody who needs urgent medical treatment of an emergency nature over the next daysand weeks, that will be available to them," she said.
"Of concern is what happens with less urgent cases."
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