Why GPs face new tussle with nurse practitioners
The Federal Government is looking once more at nurse practitioners as a workforce fix
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Is the Federal Government about to ‘free up’ nurse practitioners and expand their diagnostic and prescribing role in primary care without the oversight of GPs?
A decade ago, there was alarm that this was going to happen when the Rudd Government created time-based MBS items to fund their work in private practice.