Medicare should fund allied health referrals direct to specialists, govt review suggests
Specialists will be free to treat patients under Medicare without a referral from a GP, a Federal Government Scope of Practice Review has suggested. The…
Specialists will be free to treat patients under Medicare without a referral from a GP, a Federal Government Scope of Practice Review has suggested. The…
A controversial workforce program that lets non-VR doctors work as GPs has been overhauled, with tighter criteria on where they can work and new funding for…
Health bureaucrats have “failed” on the medical workforce for decades and neglected patients in outer-city suburbs, says Labor MP and paediatrician Dr Mike Freelander. The…
Nurse practitioners will be free to bill Medicare without clinical backup from a doctor under draft laws introduced to federal Parliament today. The changes were…
Alabama has passed legislation shielding doctors from potential legal liabilities raised by a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children. The state signed into…
AMA Tasmania could become a branch of the federal AMA, rather than an independent entity, with a possible member vote this year. Its president, GP…
One of the aged care facilities where I see residents has a car space under a shady tree reserved for doctors. It seems a welcoming…
The RACGP says a nurse practitioner has “deeply offended” doctors by comparing collaborative prescribing rules to domestic violence. But nurse practitioner Chris O’Donnell says he…
The Australian National Audit Office report released last month is of considerable length and uses language that could only excite an accountant. Perhaps its biggest…
Voluntary assisted dying is now lawful in every Australian state and will soon begin in the ACT. However, it’s illegal to discuss it via telehealth.…
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