Australian Doctor News

Has GP patient enrolment become the latest dead parrot reform?

29th April 2022
After what he has been through, you would expect Dr Steve Hambleton to have cracked by now. He has been making that long…
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Dr Steve Hambleton
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Patient enrolment vs usual GP care: Aussie trial suggests little difference

28th April 2022
An Australian randomised control trial suggests patient enrolment and longer GP appointments have a limited effect on…
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GP urgent care clinics: A reincarnation of the GP super clinic stuff-up?

22nd April 2022
GP urgent care clinics — so far, it’s the only substantive GP policy to surface during the election campaign.  The Labor…
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The Pharmacy Guild says dispenser–prescriber divide is a 'truly ancient notion'

28th March 2022
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia says preventing pharmacists from both prescribing and dispensing medications is “a truly…
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Professor Trent Twomey.
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The Diabetes Report: tips for navigating new and old therapies

17th May 2022

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The Diabetes report
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Greg Hunt has reneged on $450-million pledge for GP patient enrolment, says AMA

15th March 2022
The Federal Government has dumped its plan to introduce Medicare rebates to fund patient registration by GPs because it has…
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Greg Hunt
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'There are still times when a doctor needs to hold a patient's hand'

7th March 2022
Dr Martin Kelly is a GP who knows the reality of remote medicine. For the past 25 years, he has worked for Nganampa Health…
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Gayle Woodford
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State of the nation: GPs vs non-GP specialists

3rd March 2022
On Wednesday, the media unit at the Department of Health sent through the latest numbers for this year's GP training cohort…
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