Mark Butler accuses pathology company of withholding results from My Health Record
Pathology giant Healius is putting patients at risk by not uploading results to My Health Record, Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler claims.…
Antony Scholefield
Antony is a medical reporter with a special interest in technology and pharmacy.
Medical college axes MSF doctor’s speech over ‘political narrative’
A keynote speech by an Australian doctor currently in Gaza has been dropped from the emergency medicine college’s annual scientific meeting over its ‘political’ content.…
MyMedicare aged care incentive for GPs set at $300 a year per patient
GPs will directly receive $300 a year for each aged care patient they treat under MyMedicare, with another $130 per patient going to their practice…
Number of patients delaying or cancelling GP visits due to cost doubles: report
The number of Australians delaying a necessary visit to their doctor has doubled due to the rising cost of living, a new analysis shows. The…
More than 200 emergency calls failed during Optus outage
Optus says 228 calls to triple zero failed during a 12-hour outage that affected internet and phone services to millions of customers on 8 November. …
Last Australian state government signs up for pharmacist UTI prescribing
The South Australian government will let pharmacists diagnose and prescribe antibiotics for UTIs from March next year and renew contraceptive scripts from May. The move…
‘People don’t realise the dangers’: Warning after hundreds of semaglutide overdoses
The social media frenzy around semaglutide may have contributed to dozens of overdoses, says a leading endocrinologist, with poisons information centres seeing a spike in…
Bulk-billing rate now at 68% for standard GP consults
The bulk-billing rate for item 23 has fallen from 76% in July-September 2022 to 67.9% in the corresponding three months of 2023. The figures are…
The green rush: How do cannabis corporates make their millions?
Prescriptions for medicinal cannabis are climbing, and companies like Montu are cashing in. The Australian company made $100,000 in revenue in the 2020 financial year,…
Most GPs would not recommend the specialty to students or junior doctors: RACGP survey
GPs’ job satisfaction is falling, and fewer than half would recommend general practice as a specialty, according to the RACGP’s latest Health of the Nation…
