In Victoria, it would appear that like the train system the health system needs a major injection of funds just to patch up the cracks that exist.

Perhaps we need "Nurse Watch", but with teeth? Clearly the governments, who are responsible for the system, our care, and who reap the profits, need to do something to attract quality nurses back into the system. Further, those nurses that are badly organised and sleeping on the job need to be encouraged to "move on"!

A national register needs to be established upon which the names of nurses found to have harmed patients can be listed to ensure that their work practices do not further compromise patient safety. And perhaps, given that it is human lives that are effected, it is time for compulsory random drug testing to weed out those people who are not interested in serving, "we the people". After all it is the patients who are ultimately paying the wages.