{"id":309262,"date":"2025-10-30T12:18:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=309262"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:19:00","slug":"racism-will-not-be-tolerated-top-doc-slams-st-vincents-indigenous-emergency-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=309262","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Racism will not be tolerated\u2019: Top doc slams St. Vincent\u2019s Indigenous emergency policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A former member of Alfred Health\u2019s ethics committee has criticised St. Vincent Hospital\u2019s recent introduction of their Indigenous emergency policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor James Wilson says the policy implies race is being taken into consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe list of priorities that people need to consider when assigning a category do not include race, and specifically do not include race because racism will not be tolerated in the Australian healthcare system,\u201d he told Tom Elliott on&nbsp;<em>3AW Mornings.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Professor Wilson also says the policy may violate the Declaration of Geneva.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear his full take on the policy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"&#039;Racism will not be tolerated&#039;: Top doc slams St. Vincent&#039;s Indigenous emergency policy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/racism-will-not-be-tolerated-top-doc-slams-st-vincents-indigenous-emergency-policy\/embed#?secret=fC8WlYDxp9\" data-secret=\"fC8WlYDxp9\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor James Wilson says the policy implies race is being taken into consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":309263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,10467],"tags":[8054,993,18586,8],"class_list":["post-309262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-medical-aid","tag-3aw","tag-melbourne","tag-st-vincents-hospital","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309265,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309262\/revisions\/309265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/309263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}