Urgent care clinics vs MyMedicare: Where does Mark Butler’s real interest in general practice lie?
The health minister’s recent speech to the AMA faithful had a theme running through it that was something like: do you remember the bad old…
Antony Scholefield
Antony is a medical reporter with a special interest in technology and pharmacy.
9-year-old’s star turn in GP recruitment campaign
Donning an oversized white coat and stethoscope, William Gleeson turns to the camera and asks: “Are you tired of the humdrum of metro general practice?”…
TGA warns of sudden cardiac death risk with azithromycin
The TGA has slapped safety warnings on azithromycin over a very rare risk of acute cardiovascular death, particularly within the first five days of use. …
RACGP presidential candidate Dr Alan Bradley responds to the big questions facing GPs
RACGP members will vote for a new president this month. Five GPs are campaigning for the role, and AusDoc has asked all five to answer…
‘Act of desperation’: GPs take industrial action to protest NHS funding
GPs in England are taking industrial action to protest a 1.9% NHS funding rise, after a near-unanimous vote from the British Medical Association’s GP members.…
Urgent care clinics expanding GP scope of practice, health minister says
The Minister for Health and Aged Care has told doctors that his $580 million urgent care clinics are helping to expand the scope of GP…
Compounded remedies with deadly nightshade causing anticholinergic syndrome in infants: TGA
The TGA is investigating reports of toxicity in infants given compounded products for wind and colic that contained Atropa belladonna. Last month, the watchdog warned doctors…
RACGP officially endorses Aussie doctor’s antidepressant deprescribing guidelines
New deprescribing guidelines from an Australian-born doctor who battled antidepressant withdrawal symptoms have become the latest RACGP-backed clinical resource. Dr Mark Horowitz published The Maudsley…
Why this registrar plays chess with a retired doctor living in aged care
ICU registrar Dr Aquib Chowdhury, 31, volunteers to regularly visit a doctor living in aged care as a way of giving back to the profession.…
Up to 6000 student nurses getting GP placements under $4.2m govt scheme
The Federal Government will spend $4.2 million to fund 6000 student nurse placements in GP practices and other primary care clinics over three years. The…
