The next big thing? Let allied health refer directly to specialists

The idea is being floated by the Federal Government's scope of practice review.
Paul Smith.

Tracking the embrace of mass antibiotic prescribing by pharmacists for UTIs over the last three years has been a real-world object lesson for anyone wanting to understand how health policy works.

We’ve covered it in some detail.

Yes, it lacks the laughs you find in Yes Minister, but the cynicism of the process running through both narratives remains the same.

Powerful lobby groups with cash to pay for contacts, the pollies eyeing ways to look all-action for the voters, the questionable academic research purportedly proving the reform will harm no-one, before being pushed into mainstream primary care aided and abetted by gaping loopholes in the regulatory system.