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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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