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    Tag: practice nurses

    Practice nurses say MBS care plan changes unlikely to trigger job losses

    June 11, 2025

    Ken Griffin.Medicare’s revamped care plan items have created anxiety for nurses but are unlikely to trigger job losses, the practice nurse association says. On 1…

    Has the genie escaped? Health ministers uncap the bottle on nurses prescribing S4 drugs

    December 12, 2024

    There is no escaping that the gathering of the country’s various health ministers last Friday carried a historical significance when it comes to health reform.…

    Nurse prescribing of S4 and S8 drugs to start in 2025 but will not be ‘open slather’

    December 11, 2024

    Nurses have received the green light to prescribe ‘in partnership’ with doctors or nurse practitioners from mid-2025, including S8 drugs for cancer and palliative care.…

    RACGP fumes after doctors’ relationship with nurses likened to domestic violence

    March 12, 2024

    The RACGP says a nurse practitioner has “deeply offended” doctors by comparing collaborative prescribing rules to domestic violence. But nurse practitioner Chris O’Donnell says he…

    Mark Butler backs crackdown on GP co-claiming MBS nurse items with chronic disease plans 

    April 11, 2023

    The federal Minister for Health and Aged Care has backed his department after it warned 600 GPs against co-claiming a $12.70 practice nurse MBS item…

    What crisis? GP numbers are stronger than ever, says Grattan Institute

    December 6, 2022

    The supply of GPs is not collapsing — in fact it’s stronger than it’s ever been and its only likely to grow, the Grattan Institute…

    GP staff shortages could ‘worsen’ under plan to pay nurses’ debt

    August 29, 2022

    A Victorian program to pay off nursing students' debt could make it harder for GPs to find practice nurses: peak bodies.

    GPs don’t need to be present when nurses vaccinate – the MBS must change

    July 26, 2022

    I have a very simple message for the federal Department of Health and Aged Care: primary healthcare nurses are more than capable of vaccinating patients…

    Professor Charlotte Hespe

    Leading GP takes on fight for practice nurse flu vax item

    July 4, 2022

    Associate Professor Charlotte Hespe has launched a 'last resort' online petition for a Medicare rule change after the Federal Government rejected a…

    Karen Booth

    After 26 million COVID-19 vax doses, practice nurses say they are ‘burnt out’

    February 17, 2022

    A survey suggests 29% of nurses plan to leave their job within the next five years.

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    After 26 million COVID-19 vax doses, practice nurses say they are 'burnt out'

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