Judge rejects claim ‘activist doctors’ drove NHS crackdown on physician assistants
A lobby group for physician assistants will pay $63,000 in costs after a court dismissed its allegations that NHS England’s decision to restrict their scope…
Ciara Seccombe
Ciara is a junior reporter at AusDoc.
Meet the practice nurse training to become one of Australia’s first RN prescribers
Benjamin Jol.Benjamin Jol is to become one of the first RNs to start prescribing S4 medications with the support of his GP colleague. Currently, there…
Why this GP is helping his practice nurse to become one of the first RN prescribers
Dr Puneet Goyal.Practice nurse Benjamin Jol is to become one of the first RNs to start prescribing S4 medications with the support of his GP…
Pharmacy guild vs RACGP: Social media scrap over four-second radio clip
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the RACGP are waging an emoji-filled war of words on LinkedIn and Facebook over a four-second radio clip of…
GPs and their specialist referrals: Is the system working?
It is not often you see detailed analysis of one of the most fundamental elements of the health system: the decision-making underpinning a patient’s journey…
Self-test for chlamydia and gonorrhoea suspended by TGA over false-negative concerns
The TGA has suspended the registration of Australia’s only self-test for gonorrhoea and chlamydia after independent testing raised concerns about false negatives. The TGA said…
Medical Must-See: Doctors fix a clinical hand-off
A metal-cutting guillotine made short work of a Mexican man’s hand. It took doctors seven hours to reattach it. The accident happened when the right…
RNs will soon be writing PBS scripts. Here’s what you need to know
RNs working with doctors will be able to prescribe S4 and S8 drugs under the PBS after landmark legislation was passed by federal Parliament last…
Govt axes medicines advice line that helped discover new adverse events including ‘sleep driving’
The Federal Government is closing its phone service for patients to ask questions about medicines and report adverse events, suggesting that they see a GP…
‘Leaky pipeline’: 80% of cardiac patients skip rehab in Aussie study
Only 20% of cardiac patients attend rehabilitation despite its association with lower mortality, an Australian study suggests. The data linkage study of 37,191 adults undergoing…
