Tag: private hospitals

2 June 2023

APHM Justifies Need For Foreign Nurses: ‘There Are Simply No Local Nurses’

APHM says private hospitals in Malaysia need an additional 9,200 plus nurses from 2023-2025. "There are simply no local nurses". Foreign nurses will be paid "about the same" as locals. Popular origin countries for nurses are India and the Philippines.

24 February 2023

Malaysia

Budget 2023: Outsourcing Exercise For Outpatients To Decongest MOH Hospitals

Budget 2023 proposes outsourcing outpatients from congested MOH hospitals to university, military, and private hospitals. APHM says in response that this depends on private health care current capacity that seems to be “overstretched” too.

23 February 2023

Letter

Utilise Our GPs To Ease Patients’ Waiting Time And Cost – Dr Steven KW Chow

The private GP system is a time-proven, efficient, and cost-effective system, and should be used to ease outpatient congestion at all public facilities.

28 December 2022

Malaysia

Private Hospitals’ Emergency Rooms Full Amid Nursing Shortage

Patients in private hospitals in Klang Valley, Penang, Melaka, and JB are waiting 6-8 hours or longer in the emergency room for beds in wards due to a nursing shortage; PHFSA 1998 prohibits private hospitals from opening up beds without sufficient nurses.

5 December 2022

Malaysia

Malaysia Must Recruit Foreign Nurses To Curb ‘Unprecedented’ Shortage: APHM

The Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia tells the government to immediately bring in foreign nurses amid an acute nursing shortage across the public and private sectors.

19 October 2022

Letter

Malaysia’s Health Agenda: Complex But Crucial – Nadiah Wan

Singapore and Indonesia are allowing foreign health care labour. Unless global and structural trends are reversed, Malaysia must start planning for the liberalisation of our health care labour market.

7 October 2022

Malaysia

Private Hospitals Lament Missing Public-Private Partnership In Budget 2023

APHM hopes that the government will not disrupt the business model of private health care so that private hospitals can give more support to public hospitals.

6 September 2022

Malaysia

Private Hospitals Nominate Five Experts To Help HWP Advisory Council

The five private hospital representatives nominated by APHM are CEOs, COOs, and a finance director from KPJ Healthcare, IHH Healthcare, Subang Jaya Medical Centre, Columbia Asia, and Sunway Healthcare.

19 July 2022

Malaysia

Why Single-Specialty Hospitals Like Orthopaedics Are Growing

The benefits of single-specialty hospitals that focus on just one specialty, such as orthopaedics, are higher patient satisfaction, better outcomes, and lower cost.

6 July 2022

Malaysia

Private Hospitals, Pharma MNCs Find Resolutions For Malaysia’s Medicine Shortage

APHM and PhAMA indicate possible medicine price hikes due to “significant” increases in the cost of logistics, active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and labour.

Tag: private hospitals

APHM Justifies Need For Foreign Nurses: ‘There Are Simply No Local Nurses’

Budget 2023: Outsourcing Exercise For Outpatients To Decongest MOH Hospitals

Utilise Our GPs To Ease Patients’ Waiting Time And Cost – Dr Steven KW Chow

Private Hospitals’ Emergency Rooms Full Amid Nursing Shortage

Malaysia Must Recruit Foreign Nurses To Curb ‘Unprecedented’ Shortage: APHM

Malaysia’s Health Agenda: Complex But Crucial – Nadiah Wan

Private Hospitals Lament Missing Public-Private Partnership In Budget 2023

Private Hospitals Nominate Five Experts To Help HWP Advisory Council

Why Single-Specialty Hospitals Like Orthopaedics Are Growing

Private Hospitals, Pharma MNCs Find Resolutions For Malaysia’s Medicine Shortage

Johor MB Reveals Ward, OT Closures At Sultan Ismail Hospital From Doctor And Nurse Shortage

NHMS Survey: One-Third Of Sexually Experienced Malaysian Teens Had Sex Before Turning 14

APHM Justifies Need For Foreign Nurses: ‘There Are Simply No Local Nurses’

STAR Project Cuts Non-Critical Emergency Cases At HTAR By 32%

Protect Your Citizens From Vape ‘Trap’, WHO DG Urges Malaysia