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    Tag: Policy

    State-owned practices would cannibalise existing GP clinics, doctors warn

    July 18, 2025

    A plan for government-owned GP practices that universally bulk-bill is targeting the wrong locations, including a suburb with eight established practices, doctors claim. Ahead of…

    UK bans physician associates from treating undifferentiated patients

    July 17, 2025

    The NHS has told its 3500 physician associates to stop treating undifferentiated patients and to use a new title: physician assistants. The UK Government ordered…

    Ash Page.

    Mental health workers join police call-outs as states try to stop patients ending up in ED

    July 15, 2025

    As patients with acute mental illness increasingly end up in EDs, several states are running trials of mental health workers joining police call-outs to avert…

    Fitness-to-drive laws under scrutiny again after 91-year-old driver crashes into three people

    July 14, 2025

    Fitness-to-drive laws are back in the spotlight after a car driven by a 91-year-old killed two people and left a toddler seriously injured.  Victorian Acting…

    Dr Craig Lilienthal

    Why are 1000 newly qualified GPs unemployed in the UK while Australia is crying out for more?

    July 9, 2025

    Why are two basically similar health systems, 17,000km apart, producing different workloads and different employment opportunities for GPs? According to one source, there are now…

    Associate Professor Robert Parker.

    Bob Marley, syphilis and the power of letters: Professor Robert Parker on a decade leading doctors in the NT

    July 7, 2025

    The story that has stuck with Associate Professor Robert Parker was told by his former boss Dr Alan Walker in 1989. Dr Walker said that…

    Axing this essential GP service makes no sense

    July 5, 2025

    Dr Pam Rachootin.Alas, federal funding for the exemplary Drug and Therapeutics Information Service ended on the last day of June. I am devastated, as I…

    A woman in a suit standing in front of a coat of arms and Australian flag.

    ‘It prevents us from doing roads, libraries, bins’: The shires spending up to 16% of their budgets on GPs

    July 4, 2025

    Gnowangerup Shire president Kate O’Keefe.Local governments spending up to 16% of their budgets on GP recruitment want the Federal Government to cover the cost of…

    Minister for Health, Disability and Ageing Mark Butler. AAP.

    Practices vs GPs: How will Mark Butler split his bulk billing ‘spoils’?

    July 3, 2025

    The Federal Government has always claimed its big election promise to raise GP bulk-billing rates to 90% is backed by incredibly detailed modelling. The key…

    Blair Comley. AAP.

    Top health bureaucrat wants ‘less reviewing, more doing’ from Mark Butler after 70 reviews in three years

    June 30, 2025

    The top health bureaucrat wants “more doing, less reviewing” from Mark Butler, according to a memo released under Freedom of Information laws. Department of Health,…

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    Top health bureaucrat wants 'less reviewing, more doing' from Mark Butler after 70 reviews in three years

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