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    Tag: Victoria

    First nurse practitioners, now this state has paramedic practitioners to prescribe S8 drugs

    February 14, 2025

    Paramedics with master’s degrees will diagnose and prescribe treatments for wounds, infections and fractures during ambulance call-outs under a new role designed to cut ED…

    ‘The NSW Government needs to realise people will die’: Psychiatry registrar quits for Victoria

    February 11, 2025

    NSW is home for psychiatry registrar Dr Nithya Reddy. It is where she grew up, undertook all of her medical training so far and became…

    GP’s care of patient who died from VTE hampered by lack of guidelines: coroner

    January 16, 2025

    The case of a patient with obesity who died of a venous pulmonary embolism highlights the “paucity” of guidelines for GPs treating high-risk patients with…

    Review board to examine suicides of eight patients who were rejected for VAD

    January 10, 2025

    Eight suicides by patients denied access to voluntary assisted dying are being examined by the Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board in Victoria, which could trigger…

    Coroner highlights traumatic suicides of patients excluded from VAD scheme

    January 8, 2025

    A coroner is calling for a review of voluntary assisted dying laws after an elderly man, who was excluded from the scheme because he was…

    Hospital authority punished for 208 labour law breaches in unpaid overtime case

    November 1, 2024

    The hospital authority that lost a landmark class action on junior doctors’ unpaid overtime must pay $316,260 for breaching labour laws 208 times, the Federal…

    Dr William Russell Pridgeon

    Tribunal warns medical board about the presumption of guilt as it overturns another emergency suspension

    September 25, 2024

    The suspension of doctors under the Medical Board of Australia’s emergency powers has become a vexed topic. These powers are meant to be employed in…

    Doctors witnessing ‘seismic shift’ in attitudes of hospital bosses after legal victories on overtime

    September 23, 2024

    Managers are finally cleaning up their act on junior doctor rostering and staffing after another class action settlement, says a lawyer who has worked on…

    ‘Cancers sticking out like dogs’ balls’: When a GP arrives in a town that has not seen a doctor for over a year

    September 20, 2024

    Dr Michael Veal was watching his son play country footy on a wintery afternoon last year, when one of the players copped a broken jaw…

    Wanted: The names of dead doctors as legendary as Chrissy Amphlett or Dame Edna

    September 19, 2024

    There is the Harold Holt Swim Centre, Amphlett Lane and Dame Edna Place, and now AMA Victoria wants legendary doctors to be honoured. The state…

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    Wanted: The names of dead doctors as legendary as Chrissy Amphlett or Dame Edna

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