Trump chooses anti-fluoride anti-vaxxer as his US Health Secretary
Robert F Kennedy Jr is one of the world’s most prominent vaccine sceptics, and now the founder of the anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense has…
Tag: Medical politics
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…
Question marks over govt’s ‘doctor every hour’ bid to fix workforce crisis
More than 8300 doctors have been added to the medical register in just 12 months amid the scramble to fix the country’s workforce crisis. Federal…
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”…
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…
‘$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…
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…
The AMA family is united again, but the fight over fees will continue — here’s why
The 5000 AMA WA members are part of the federal AMA again, almost eight months after being kicked out. But while the split is over,…
Bulk-bill patients and we’ll become your landlord — state government’s latest election pledge to GPs
The Queensland Government is pledging to lease 50 rent-free practices to GPs in return for bulk-billing under it’s latest $365 million re-election promise. Unveiled over the…
Queensland’s GP practices to be permanently exempt from payroll tax menace
It has been a pained battle over the past two years, but general practices in Queensland will become the first to be permanently exempt from…
