GPs ‘forced to refer’ under MBS wound care plan
The RACGP insists that any referral should be based on a doctor's clinical judgement
GPs could be forced to refer patients with unhealed wounds to specially trained pharmacists and nurses for management, under a scheme proposed by an MBS review committee.
When the MBS Review Taskforce’s wound management working group published its draft report last year, the headline recommendation was to end the ban on charging for bandages in bulk-billed consultations.
