Australia – Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia

Dr Alasdair MacDonald is a Physician, working as a Director of Medicine in Tasmania, with a small private practice and a Clinical Assoc Prof at UTAS.

He chairs the Clinical Advisory Committee to the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority and is on the Healthcare Homes Implementation Advisory Committee.

He is a past RACP Board Member, President of the Adult Medicine Division and Chair of Council as well as a NEP member.

RCPE Welcomes Scottish Government Action To End Hospital Bed Cuts

RCPE Press Release

25 April 2012

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RCPE WELCOMES SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT ACTION TO END HOSPITAL BED CUTS

Commenting on a report in this morning’s The Herald newspaper [1] that the Scottish Government would appear to have recognised the need to stop reducing the number of hospital beds in Scotland, Dr Neil Dewhurst, President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, said,

Doctors Warn Over-Occupancy of Hospital Beds is Becoming Main Cause of Norovirus: Hand-Cleaning Alone is Not Effective

RCPE Press Release

28 March 2013

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DOCTORS WARN OVER-OCCUPANCY OF HOSPITAL BEDS IS BECOMING MAIN CAUSE OF NOROVIRUS: HAND-CLEANING ALONE IS NOT EFFECTIVE

Commenting on the Health Protection Scotland audit on infection control published today [1], Dr Neil Dewhurst, President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, said,