The Victorian Government’s pledge to fund $20 pharmacist consultations yesterday overshadowed significant other news. Unusually, it was good news for GPs. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling and…
Successive governments should have paid out billions more in rebates for level B consultations over the past 30 years by linking indexation to wage growth…
The GP founder of a major corporate says salaries of $500,000 are firmly within the expectations of city GPs to uproot their lives by moving…
It appears that doctors are now the government’s scapegoats. With the Commonwealth budget in trillions of dollars of debt, it is reasonable that the government…
The survivability crisis facing general practice that many of us in the profession have been thinking about, talking about and predicting for some time is…
The ‘Great GP Resignation’ is more likely to mutate into the ‘Great Shift to Part-Time Practice’, an Australian Doctor survey suggests. Facing an ongoing…
In his quest to work out how the world works, my three-year-old grandson is always asking why. This got me to thinking. Why, when we…
The 31 December will be my last day in general practice. The Seekers’ signature tune The Carnival is Over is an appropriate epitaph. I’ve had…
I recently read an article in which the author suggested health reform through a shift to outcome-based funding of general practice (as opposed to fee-for-service)…
Public debate around the crisis in general practice has focused on bulk-billing and Medicare rebates, but for some, payroll tax is the specialty’s existential threat.…
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