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Pharmacists who complete a new extended master’s degree will have the right to call themselves ‘doctor’, Mark Butler has announced. The federal Minister for Health…
Children younger than six should not use the S3 oral antihistamine promethazine due to risks of psychiatric or CNS adverse events, the TGA says. Promethazine…
Two doctors-in-training have started the cheapest CPD home yet with an opening offer of $109 a year. By the year’s end, doctors have to choose…
More than 1500 doctors will start GP training in 2025, with no training posts left empty for the first time since 2017, the RACGP says.…
GPs have accused urgent care clinics of providing inconsistent or non-existent clinical handover to patients’ usual doctors. The allegation is spelt out in a new…
A plaintiff lawyer has doused concerns that GPs could be sued for recording patients’ family history under proposed privacy law changes. The Federal Government wants…
A crossbench MP and former GP locum says a government-owned locum agency could save taxpayers millions of dollars currently spent on commissions for private recruiters.…
A police officer tasered a 95-year-old aged care resident holding a knife because his patience ran out, not because she was a threat, a jury…
For a decade, Dr Lester Mascarenhas has asked the government to help fund his clinic for asylum seekers and refugees without success. So it was…
GP Dr Emma Boulton is proud to offer surgical abortions at her practice but says “it’s not something I can talk about at dinner parties”.…
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