Major govt review backs higher rebates for longer GP consults
Medicare rebates for longer GP consultations should be increased to reduce the financial advantage of shorter appointments, according to a major review of time-tiered MBS…
Ciara Seccombe
Ciara is a junior reporter at AusDoc.
Meet Melissa Freeman: The nurse who quit the hospital system to open her own wound clinic
In a new series from AusDoc, we are chatting to primary care nurses from across Australia. Melissa Freeman left the public hospital system in 2018 to…
Doctors need legal protection from RN prescribing liability, AMA warns
Assurances from AHPRA that RN prescribers will be accountable for all their clinical decisions will do little to assuage doctors’ fears of being held liable…
New RN prescribers will be responsible for every decision they make, AHPRA says
RNs endorsed to prescribe scheduled medicines in partnership with doctors will remain individually responsible for every prescribing decision they make, regulators have stressed. Some 43…
‘Reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct’: Israel to investigate IDF killings of Gaza paramedics
Israel has launched a criminal investigation into the killing of Palestinian paramedics in Gaza last year, amid continuing allegations that health workers have been deliberately…
‘Not just semantics’: Addiction experts want prescription cannabis use disorder recognised as new condition
Patients who use medicinal cannabis as prescribed should not be classified as having cannabis use disorder if the diagnosis hinges on withdrawal and tolerance symptoms,…
Dr Ramya Raman wins RACGP presidential election with 55% of votes
Dr Ramya Raman has been elected the RACGP’s next president, securing more than half of votes in the three-GP race. Dr Raman, the national vice-president…
Jacqui Lambie’s prolapse story: ‘DVA doesn’t know or care that female veterans have vaginas’
Senator Jacqui Lambie says old injuries from her army service caused her recent vaginal prolapse, accusing the government of ignoring the medical issues of servicewomen.…
‘They were at the point where they wanted to give up’: How this RN helps women with the toll of endometriosis
RN Gill Gordon understands better than most the pain, isolation and information overload that can accompany endometriosis. At 27, she was diagnosed with stage 4…
Medical board raises rego fees by 4.2%
Doctors will have to pay $1102 for their Medical Board of Australia registration this year, a $44 increase from last year’s renewal fee. The 4.2%…
