Safety commission likely to secure GP patient prescribing data after NPS funding axe
NPS MedicineWise is calling for a review of the federal budget decision.
Tag: Federal election 2022
I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore
It’s election time, and ‘I’m mad as hell’ (see below video) about the state of our specialty at the hands of successive governments. It’s so…
Pharmacy Guild wins big again as pollies promise $150 million for PBS price cut
Whoever wins the election, script costs will be cut.
Has GP patient enrolment become the latest dead parrot reform?
Despite the apparent gutting of patient enrolment, Dr Hambleton expects it will be revived.
GP dubbed a ‘teal candidate’ denies being an election fake
 Dr Sophie Scamps has defended her independence in her run for Parliament and says the contest could go 'down to the wire'.
Survey results: GPs on bulk-billing, the election and patient enrolment
Patient enrolment divides opinion - unlike bulk-billing, it seems.
GP urgent care clinics: A reincarnation of the GP super clinic stuff-up?
AusDoc examines whether Labor's big election pledge is the old policy dressed in a different cape.
Medicare’s stuck in the 80s and failing patients, says AMA
The organisation's election campaign is calling on whoever forms the next Federal Government to urgently invest in general practice.
Urgent care centres in GP clinics are a step in the right direction – but no panacea
Public hospital emergency departments in every state are overwhelmed, with ambulance ramping the most visible manifestation, and performance is deteriorating with fewer people being seen in…
Defunct GP co-pay plan weaponised in election politicking
Labor has dragged up the Coalition's future minister for health's support for its 2014 proposal to introduce a $7 co-pay fee that was later dropped…
