Govt ad blitz to promote bulk-billing and urgent care clinics
The Federal Government is funding an advertising blitz that encourages patients to search for bulk-billing GP clinics. A 30-second TV advertisement is telling patients that…
Tag: health policy
Allied health referring to specialists will ‘blow out the budget, like the NDIS’
The Federal Government’s Scope of Practice Review says letting dietitians refer directly to gastroenterologists and midwives refer to psychiatrists will save patients money from “arbitrary”…
One year on: ADHD prescribing rights expanded but GPs still waiting on promised big changes
With assessments costing thousands of dollars, years-long wait times, exploding demand and little public sector help, ADHD care seemed at breaking point. Exactly one year…
The AMA is wrong — the medical board must make cognitive screening of older doctors mandatory
I am a middle-aged GP. As such, I have a while to go before I am likely to be subject to the mandatory health check…
Scope of Practice Review wants chiros referring to surgeons and mandatory GP practice accreditation
Allowing chiropractors to directly refer to orthopaedic surgeons under Medicare and mandatory accreditation for all GP practices are two of the radical suggestions in the…
5.4 million more bulk-billed GP consults a year thanks to tripled incentives: Mark Butler
The GP bulk-billing rate has climbed from 75.6% to 77.3% in the year since tripled bulk-billing incentives began, says Minister for Health and Aged Care…
‘$12 per patient to fund the clinic’: GP tells Q+A why general practice is collapsing
Last night, GP registrar Dr Shruti Yardi asked the panelists on the ABC’s Q+A why she should work in general practice. The panelists included Minister…
Workforce crisis forces Dr Jafrin Mannan to close GP practice that was her ‘baby’
Dr Jafrin Mannan opened her GP practice a few kilometres north of Newcastle in 2019, where at its peak it cared for almost 2000 patients.…
If I were a young GP, I couldn’t survive on bulk-billing without sausage-machine medicine or cheating the system
Why is 100% bulk-billing by GPs considered the Holy Grail for healthcare in Australia? We pay for food, water, clothing and shelter, which we need…
Pharmacists have performed just 415 consults in Queensland’s prescribing trial, but what they are doing exactly remains a mystery
Following the heated controversy over Queensland’s pharmacy prescribing experiment, around 400 patients — potentially fewer — have consulted a pharmacist. A big question is what…
