NSW Health pushed to modernise invoices
By Michael Lee, ZDNet Australia, December 14th, 2011. "NSW Health has brought forward work on a web portal that's used to manage payments to visiting medical officers (VMOs) after the NSW auditor-general found glaring issues in how payments are being managed..."
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Last updated: 16 December 2011
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Visiting Medical Officers and Staff Specialists
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NSW Auditor-General's Report to Parliament, Audit Office of New South Wales, 14 December 2011. "The public hospital system in New South Wales would not function without Visiting Medical Officers and Staff Specialists. They make up more than half of the 13,000 doctors working in public hospitals.
VMOs are doctors who often have their own private practices and work as contractors in public hospitals. Surgeons tend to be VMOs. Staff Specialists work full or part time, mainly in large hospitals. Emergency department doctors, psychiatrists and geriatricians are generally Staff Specialists.
This report looked at payments made to VMOs and Staff Specialists and also examined how well they are used to meet demand within the NSW hospital system..."