Nurse scripts would be funded under PBS in new laws
Scripts written by nurse prescribers would be funded on the PBS under draft laws proposed by the Federal Government. It follows the agreement struck by federal,…
Ciara Seccombe
Ciara is a junior reporter at AusDoc.
Make doctors work in the bush for their provider numbers, says Barnaby Joyce
GPs would fail to gain a provider number unless they agreed to spend a period of time in the bush as a sort of “quid…
AHPRA’s IMG fast track clears 501 doctors, paediatricians now eligible
The Medical Board of Australia has opened an IMG fast track for paediatricians and general physicians as the number of IMGs working in Australia via…
Medical Must-See: Promising pharmaceutical provokes patient’s pustules
A Turkish man’s rare reaction to psoriasis treatment has left doctors scratching their heads. The patient, 62, was prescribed bimekizumab for plaque psoriasis that affected…
Lawsuit accusing journals of ‘conspiracy’ not to pay peer reviewers dismissed
A class action accusing scientific publishing giants of conspiring not to pay peer reviewers has been dismissed. The lawsuit by four US academics — neuroscientist…
201 complaints to AHPRA about anti-Semitism or Islamophobia closed without sanctions
About 200 of the 225 complaints since October 2023 accusing health practitioners of anti-Semitism or Islamophobia have been closed with no regulatory action, AHPRA has…
Draft laws allow govt to publish what specific GPs charge using Medicare data
A bill to let the Federal Government publish what individual specialists are charging for common services applies to GPs as well, Minister for Health and…
Govt pays universal bulk-billing GP practices $61 million under new incentive
The Federal Government has paid out more than $61.4 million across 2949 GP practices for the first two months of its new Practice Incentives Program payment for universal bulk-billing.…
Mark Butler to mixed-billing GPs: ‘It is overwhelmingly in your interest to switch’
GPs who continue mixed billing risk bleeding patients to bulk-billing practices, the Minister for Health and Ageing says, as the GP bulk-billing rate bounces to…
Bulk-billing GP practices get priority access to registrars under billion-dollar govt contract with colleges
GP registrars will be placed in bulk-billing practices as a priority under the new five-year $1.08 billion training contract the Federal Government has signed with…
