Health Dept confirms 3500 GPs weeks away from losing ‘all access’ to Medicare
It's just paperwork but this latest saga has the potential to become a major crisis if doctors fail to act
Below we publish the Federal Health Department’s answers to a series of questions on an issue which has the potential to become a crisis.
Last month, it carried out a review and discovered that 3500 GPs were weeks away from being denied any access to Medicare.
The reason was paperwork: although all of the doctors have college fellowships, they have not formally registered as specialists with AHPRA.
Usually this is not a problem.
