Scrap the pharmacy prescribing experiment: Sign the AusDoc petition
At the time of writing, nearly all the details surrounding a reckless experiment in Australian healthcare have been released — save how its safety will…
Tag: QLD
175 Qld pharmacists sign up for prescribing training
Pharmacists have rushed to join Queensland’s pharmacy prescribing course, with enough pharmacists applying to the state health department to completely book out the first training…
Revealed: The training pharmacists will undergo to prescribe independently of doctors
It is an 11-page document drawn up by Queensland Health and, in its way, it is a blueprint for a revolution. It details the training…
Script monitoring: 5000 doctors sent ‘intimidating and insulting’ compliance letters
Thousands of doctors have received “intimidating and insulting” compliance letters for allegedly not checking script-monitoring software before prescribing drugs of addiction, AMA Queensland says. The…
Minister accuses locum obstetricians of greed over their ‘extraordinary’ fee demands
Queensland Minister for Health Yvette D’Ath has lashed out at locum obstetricians accusing them of demanding “extraordinary fees”. “We’ve had circumstances where we’ve been negotiating…
Banned GP once admitted he was ‘not cut out for private practice’
A GP who once admitted he was not cut out for private general practice has been banned indefinitely following the death of a first-time patient…
What Aussie doctors discovered when a teen filmed her snake bite
Australian doctors are reporting the unusual case of a teen who filmed herself being willingly bitten by an unfamiliar but venomous snake. Before the 18-year-old presented…
‘My plan is to destroy AHPRA’: Dr William Bay on why he’s fighting his ban
Dr William Bay says he is not “begging” to return to clinical practice. For many doctors watching on, it must feel as though the former…
State Govt says it will fund $20 patient consults with pharmacists and cover the cost of their scripts
The Victorian Government has pledged to launch its own pharmacy prescribing trial if re-elected on Saturday, with taxpayers funding hundreds of thousands of $20 pharmacist…
Hospital board sacked after scathing report on deaths of three babies
The board of Queensland’s troubled Mackay Hospital and Health Service has been sacked after a scathing report found inadequate care contributed to the deaths of…
