COPS Welcomes Announcement on the Intended Resumption of Elective Surgery

COVID-19 Statement
The Council of Procedural Specialists (COPS) welcomes the Prime Minister’s announcement that the National Cabinet will consider the return of elective surgery at its meeting on Tuesday 21 April 2020. COPS will work with the Federal Government, State governments and other medical bodies to ensure that the appropriate protocols for a safe return to work
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Statement on public-private hospital arrangements

COVID-19 Statement
The members of Council of Procedural Specialists (COPS) are committed to working with Federal and State Governments to support arrangements that utilise the private hospital sector in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. We congratulate the Federal and State Ministers for Health on this initiative. The members of COPS have agreed that the following arrangements
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Facts Coronavirus / COVID-19

COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease – 19 caused by SARS-CoV-2) Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses known to cause respiratory infections. These can range from the common cold to more serious diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). This new coronavirus originated in Hubei Province, China and the disease
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COVID-19 Statement

COVID-19 Statement
An extraordinary meeting of the Council of Procedural Specialists (COPS) to discuss COVID-19 was held at 8:30 pm on 16/03/2020. COPS urgently calls for the Federal and State Health Ministers to take immediate action to urgently ensure the supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to all hospital doctors and health care workers (HCW) including the
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Private health insurers accused of lying about costs to raise premiums

Article Appeared in Sunrise Australia's big private health insurers have been accused of a sham, with plans to hike premiums again next year - some by twice the rate of inflation. Insurers say the hefty 3.2 per cent proposed increase is in response to the government's failure to lower the cost of medical devices, like
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Government Rejects Private Health Insurers Price Hike

Mr Hunt has written to insurers demanding they resubmit applications for 2020, after being hit with requests for increases understood to be an average 3.5 per cent - more than double the rate of inflation and higher than this year's 3.25 per cent hike. The medical devices industry, which is at war with insurers over
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Letter to the Editor – League Tables

Dear Sir, With regard to surgeons publishing individual complication rates it is all well and good for a surgeon to publish those but who has checked that all cases have been entered and who has checked that the complications quoted are accurate and have not been sanitised? Since January 1, 2010 the Australian and New
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The Physician’s Pledge – WMA DECLARATION OF GENEVA

Physician’s Pledge as amended by the 68th WMA General Assembly
Adopted by the 2nd General Assembly of the World Medical Association, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1948 and amended by the 22nd World Medical Assembly, Sydney, Australia, August 1968 and the 35th World Medical Assembly, Venice, Italy, October 1983 and the 46th WMA General Assembly, Stockholm, Sweden, September 1994 and editorially revised by the 170th WMA Council Session, Divonne-les-Bains, France, May 2005
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Dr Bruce Shepherd’s Obituary

Dr Bruce Shepard
Vale Dr Bruce Dalway Shepherd, AM (26/10/1932 – 25/05/2018) Bruce Dalway Shepherd was born at the height of the Great Depression on 26/10/1932 in the NSW country town of Tamworth.  It was a difficult birth. His mother Mary (a former trainee nurse at the Coast Hospital in Sydney) would have died of post-partum haemorrhage had
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APRA Releases Quarterly Private Health Insurance Statistics for Sep 2017

APRA Quarterly Private Health InsuranceReport
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) today released its quarterly private health insurance statistics publications for the September 2017 quarter. The publications provide industry aggregate summaries of key financial and membership statistics for the private health insurance industry. Key performance statistics for the private health insurance industry in the year ended 30 September 2017: See
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