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%…
Ciara Seccombe
Ciara is a junior reporter at AusDoc.
Health department’s nudge letter study ignored ‘ethical rights’ of GPs: Lancet letter
Professor Louise Stone.A Lancet journal has published a letter by three prominent Australian GPs saying a Federal Government-funded study that involved sending GPs ‘nudge letters’ failed to…
10 extra CPD hours not enough to ensure ‘competence’ of non-medical prescribers, RACGP says
RNs or pharmacists who are allowed to prescribe S4 drugs should have to do much more CPD than others in their profession, the RACGP says.…
RACGP election: What matters most to each of the candidates?
The race to become the next president of the RACGP is now in full swing, with just a few days left before voting opens on…
Hospital doctors to strike next week: ‘It takes a lot to get doctors to take industrial action’
Doctors across several major hospitals will stop work next week in the first protected industrial action by Victorian public doctors in 20 years. Doctors will…
Video of Bankstown nurses allegedly menacing Israeli patients allowed as evidence after Supreme Court ruling
The video of two Australian nurses allegedly making menacing anti-Semitic comments will be permitted as evidence in their trial, following an appeal. The video of former…
Medical students face new brain bleed subject far worse than neuroanatomy
Medical school students are facing changes to the curriculum of the sort that, if they know what is coming, may trigger a bigger heart sink…
AHPRA defends embrace of anti-Semitism definition in two-hour Royal Commission hearing
AHPRA will not ditch its contested anti-Semitism definition to guide investigations, but it has admitted it still has no clear idea how it will use…
How practice nurses can help manage patients with ADHD
As GPs move into diagnosing and managing patients with ADHD, practice nurses can help enhance the services they provide, a nurse leader says. Nurse consultant…
‘They don’t understand how this gets weaponised’: Nursing union calls on AHPRA to ditch anti-Semitism definition
The new anti-Semitism definition adopted by AHPRA is creating confusion, and employers are already using it to restrict what nurses can wear or say outside…
