30 Apr 2024
‘This is the limit’: GPs’ personal plea as tax devastation grows
With the payroll tax grab threatening to cripple their small, family-owned practice, a husband and wife duo are urging politicians to ‘be fair, or at least listen’.
29 Apr 2024
‘Funding gets results’: Bulk billing bounces back
Patients accessed 950,000 additional subsidised GP visits in the five months since new incentives rolled out, according to government estimates.
29 Apr 2024
Second Australian hydromorphone trial announced
The new opiate treatment is meeting people ‘where they are at’ and could save those for whom methadone has not worked.
26 Apr 2024
Recommendations made by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) – March 2024
Recommendations made by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) – March 2024
26 Apr 2024
Dementia survey highlights lack of awareness
Australians generally know little about how to reduce risk, but there are ways to ‘bring cognition into the consulting room’.
26 Apr 2024
Adolescents 3.4 times more likely to self-harm than adults: AIHW
Self-harm hospitalisations have surged 38% in four years, as general practice underfunding and psychiatric waitlists leave patients desperate for help.
25 Apr 2024
GPs forced to turn away Veteran Card holders due to low rebates: RACGP
Access to the Coordinated Veterans’ Care program is also reportedly being limited due to eligibility restrictions, complex bureaucratic processes, and a lack of clinician awareness.
24 Apr 2024
Expansion of the National Immunisation Program Vaccinations in Pharmacy (NIPVIP) Program
From Monday 29 April 2024, the NIPVIP Program will be expanded to allow pharmacies to claim a payment for the off-site administration of National Immunisation Program (NIP) vaccinations in residential aged care and disability homes.
24 Apr 2024
Patients ‘critically impaired’ by complex mental health waitlists
GPs say a lack of time, resources, and investment is putting doctors and patients increasingly at risk, as psychologist waitlists swell to breaking point.
24 Apr 2024
Government warned GPs have ‘reached their limit’ with Medicare
With the national cost-of-living report delayed for a third time, fears are growing that much needed reform won’t make it into the May Budget.