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    Tag: Politics

    Private hospitals want $1.3 billion taxpayer bailout or patients to pay $200 fee for every admission

    December 9, 2024

    Private hospitals warn facilities will close unless the Federal Government hands over a bailout of $1.3 billion, or allow them to charge patients up to…

    ‘Concerns of doctors have been ignored for too long’: UK reviewing whether physician associates are safe

    November 28, 2024

    The training, scope and supervision requirements for the UK’s 3500 physician associates is under review after years of warnings from doctors about the “cheap medical…

    MPs want to stop hundreds of GP practices recruiting IMGs

    November 26, 2024

    Independent MPs have blasted the Federal Government for allowing hundreds of outer-urban GP practices to recruit IMGs. Two years ago, the government radically extended the…

    Govt ad blitz to promote bulk-billing and urgent care clinics

    November 12, 2024

    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…

    5.4 million more bulk-billed GP consults a year thanks to tripled incentives: Mark Butler

    November 4, 2024

    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…

    Mark Butler and Anthony Albanese

    Political decisions to increase GP ‘workforce priority’ areas branded a serious policy failure

    October 8, 2024

    Automatic access to Medicare for IMGs working outside metropolitan cities should be scrapped, a Federal Government review has concluded. It comes two years after the…

    Salaried GPs would staff 1000 government clinics under Greens plan

    October 3, 2024

    Thousands of GPs would work as government employees under a $54 billion primary care policy that the Greens say they would push on a minority…

    RACGP ultimatum: Mark Butler must reveal new care plan rebates or shelve the changes

    September 18, 2024

    The RACGP says the Federal Government must confirm the updated rebates for writing and reviewing GP care plans or delay its long-planned reforms until next…

    Medical board plan to fast-track overseas GPs into Australia next month still a big mystery, says RACGP

    September 13, 2024

    The RACGP says it is increasingly concerned about the lack of information on the Medical Board of Australia’s plan to fast-track IMGs into the country…

    ‘No different to cigarettes’: Govt will ban children from Facebook and TikTok

    September 10, 2024

    The Federal Government will ban younger children from joining social media due to concerns for their mental health, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced. While…

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    ‘No different to cigarettes’: Govt will ban children from Facebook and TikTok

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