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    UK bans physician associates from treating undifferentiated patients

    July 17, 2025

    The NHS has told its 3500 physician associates to stop treating undifferentiated patients and to use a new title: physician assistants. The UK Government ordered…

    ‘Some of the wildest pathology in medicine’: Why Dr John Zorbas says every doctor needs time in the Top End

    July 10, 2025

    “It is like playing a video game set on extreme difficulty.” This is new AMA NT president Dr John Zorbas describing healthcare in the territory.…

    ‘We were abused and called baby killers’: How politics took a hospital to the brink

    July 1, 2025

    Professor Keith Burgess. Photo: Briana Fiore/ABCThe endings are rarely happy when a hospital finds itself at the heart of a political fight. But that is…

    Bernadette Mulholland.

    2800 doctors to strike next month unless govt improves pay offer

    June 26, 2025

    Thousands of hospital doctors will strike for 24 hours next month unless the SA Government revises its offer of a 10% pay rise spread over…

    ‘Treat the cause of high specialist fees, not the symptoms,’ says RACP president

    June 19, 2025

    The physicians’ college says high specialist costs are a symptom of an unhealthy system but is yet to respond on whether greedy specialists are partly…

    Court tells doctors to accept interim 3% pay rise and commit to no more strikes

    June 12, 2025

    A judge has “strongly advised” doctors to accept NSW Health’s offer of an interim 3% pay rise following a 5000-doctor strike in April. The Australian…

    Dr Louis Sisk.

    GPs paid more than anaesthetists for hospital locum jobs — see the list

    June 12, 2025

    GPs rank seventh out of 15 specialties for hospital locum pay rates, averaging $234 an hour, an agency has found. Data on more than 4500…

    Professor Jason Ong. LinkedIn.

    ‘Big emergency’: Overwhelmed sexual health doctors turning away hundreds of patients a week

    June 6, 2025

    Rising STI cases are forcing sexual health doctors to reject thousands of patients a year, a leading GP says. Last year, almost 56,000 consultations —…

    GP registrars offered $40,000 to train in Queensland

    May 28, 2025

    Almost 600 GP registrars can get a one-off $40,000 payment this year to lessen the financial pain of leaving the hospital system, the Queensland Government…

    Human rights versus risk aversion: Why involuntary treatment is increasing in this state

    May 26, 2025

    Almost a decade ago, new mental health legislation in Queensland aimed to minimise involuntary treatment of people with disabilities and severe mental illness. The Mental…

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