Four GPs admit breaches of Medicare’s 30/20 rule for phone consults: PSR
The PSR has reported its first cases of doctors repaying Medicare rebates after breaching the 30/20 rule on phone consults. Introduced in October 2022, the…
Tag: Regulation
Why radiologists do not expect that AI will put them out of business
As the buzz around AI grew, some doctors started hinting to their radiologist colleagues about finding another specialty because, obviously, radiologists would be the first…
Breaking news: Federal Government shelves its MBS care plan reforms
The Federal Government has apparently shelved until next year its plan to scrap the $130 MBS item for team care arrangements and equalise the rebates…
GP practices must ensure all staff have necessary vaccinations: RACGP draft standards
GP practices will have to ensure all staff members receive recommended vaccinations based on their role and their contact with patients under the RACGP’s draft…
Coroner blasts VAD after patient’s spouse took lethal drugs instead
The suicide death of a Queenslander who took assisted dying drugs intended for their spouse has “fatally exposed” the state’s voluntary euthanasia laws, a coroner…
GP pioneer says telehealth industry has become ‘a race to the bottom’
In the distant past of 2017, telehealth website Qoctor was causing controversy among GPs. Mailing out S4 antibiotics or sildenafil, online questionnaires to assess eligibility…
Banned doctor alleged to have infected patient with hep B while working under alias
A banned doctor has been accused of infecting a patient with hepatitis B after continuing to work at a Sydney cosmetic clinic under a different…
How AHPRA’s over-70s suspicions are ‘sowing the seeds of destruction’ for the entire health system
AHPRA, which may need to be renamed the Australian Health Professional Retrenchment Agency, seems to be coming up with more and more ways of dismantling…
GP referral networks crucial to stop cowboy cannabis prescribers, says top doctor
Knowing local GPs who prescribe medicinal cannabis is key to protecting patients from the “perfunctory” prescribers, says NSW Health’s chief addiction medicine specialist. Sydney GP…
‘It’s almost like genital mutilation’: Plastic surgeon tells of his work repairing botched labiaplasties
Professor Mark Ashton says the rise in young women having undergone botched labiaplasties is “nothing short of worryingly spectacular”. The number of women coming to…
