GP practices will not need to be accredited to receive the Federal Government’s new incentive payments for universal bulk-billing, health officials say. Alongside extending tripled…
Pharmacist prescribing of S4 drugs for impetigo, reflux and obesity is becoming a permanent part of the health system despite a lack of evaluation. Queensland…
Doctors have uncovered two uncommon conditions in one woman, whose only complaint was eight months of “vague” abdominal pain. The patient, 65, presented to the…
Nursing groups are already bidding for PBS subsidies after health ministers decided to let RNs prescribe S4 and S8 drugs, starting this year. In an…
The Senate is preparing to vote on laws that would cut the time limit for lodging bulk-billed claims from two years after the service took…
Private health insurers want the Federal Government’s $24 million specialist fee website to go opt-out only, forcing doctors to publish their fees unless they proactively…
Eating and cooking with butter is a recipe for shortening your life, according to findings from long-running large cohort studies. US research shows higher butter…
The Federal Government is expanding distribution priority areas yet again, with 17 areas including Surfers Paradise and Noosa in Queensland permitted to recruit IMGs who…
Health officials have started a mass letter mail-out to doctors they suspect are using the PBS to prescribe subsidised semaglutide to patients without diabetes. Without…
Oral vancomycin replaces metronidazole as first-line treatment for Clostridioides difficile in new guidelines from infectious diseases physicians. In the first changes since 2016, the Australasian…
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