Increased bulk-billing incentives, a new higher rebate for 60 minute plus consultations, along with new items for phone calls and aged care are coming into being on 1 November.

The scale of the revolution is still much-disputed. But these reforms are meant to represent something big for a specialty battered by the chill winds of the Medicare freeze.

Many of the headlines were announced in this year’s federal budget, but the important details have arrived in bits and pieces in the months since then. 

Here is what is locked in.