Tick-a-box medicine is draining the heart out of general practice

I felt like puking upon reading the new RACGP template for an adult mental health care plan.

I thought to myself that perhaps I won’t be doing MHCPs anymore.

One of the mandatory new questions, according to the RACGP, relates to how the patient’s mental health problem affects all of their children, which I figure could take weeks to address properly.

Then again, I was unable to find this requirement in the MBS listing.