Fresh warning for GPs over payroll tax
AMA Victoria warns that backdated payroll bills may force some practices to close.
Tag: Victoria
‘Fixation’ on COVID-19 symptoms seriously harmed patients: sentinel events report
Infection control measures and PPE have also contributed to 22 incidents where hospital patients died or were seriously harmed.
Is the AMA ‘civil war’ just a fight about money?
The state branch is offering discount membership, but it means no money going to the federal AMA.
Legal win for doctors who refused to give futile end-of-life care
The son of the patient had accused doctors at Northern Hospital of murdering his elderly father.
1 in 5 staff at major hospital off during Omicron wave
Doctors were asked to cancel leave and safe care patient ratios were breached because of the shortfall, a Victorian inquiry hears
Patient’s overdose death in ED was ‘readily preventable’: coroner
The patient was found unresponsive while supposedly attached to monitoring equipment, heard the Coroners Court of Victoria.
Hospitals urged to ‘call GPs directly’ when changing a patient’s opioid dose
The recommendation came after the fatal overdose of a patient whose GP was unaware their methadone dose had been halved.
RACGP rejects coroner’s call for new acute MI guidelines
It's unrealistic to expect guidelines will prevent rare cardiac deaths, says college.
Bacchus Marsh doctor escapes ban over baby deaths because of staff shortages
A tribunal had found a three-month suspension was justified.
Patient’s rare cardiac death shows need for RACGP guidance: coroner
The patient died of an AMI triggered by giant-cell arteritis of the coronary artery.
