GP shortage to hit 4600 within the decade, govt predicts
Australia will be around 4600 GPs short of meeting patients’ health needs by 2033, even assuming that 90% of GP training places are filled, the…
Tag: Australian Medical Association (AMA)
ECGs for patients in dramatic decline after GP rebate was cut to $16
The RACGP says the Federal Government should let GPs access a better paid MBS item for ECG tracing and recording “effective immediately” to close the…
‘How the darkest times led me to medicine’: Dr Jana Pittman’s hurdles to becoming a doctor
“Does anyone know how many small people have come out of my vagina?” Dr Jana Pittman is on stage at the AMA conference, a world…
Urgent care clinics vs MyMedicare: Where does Mark Butler’s real interest in general practice lie?
The health minister’s recent speech to the AMA faithful had a theme running through it that was something like: do you remember the bad old…
The five big issues facing the AMA’s next president
It has been a great week for vice-presidents. On Wednesday, the AMA revealed that GP Dr Danielle McMullen would take over from Professor Steve Robson…
Queensland GP confirmed as next AMA president
Dr Danielle McMullen will officially be the next AMA president after no other doctor was nominated for the role. The Queensland GP will be the…
What you need to know about the new aged care incentive
Rural practices accessing the new aged care incentive can provide four of their eight annual visits via telehealth if required, the Department of Health and Aged Care says. The incentive,…
Scope of Practice Review slammed over ‘flawed’ proposal to cash out MBS care plans
The Scope of Practice Review is going beyond its remit by suggesting “cashing out” a string of GP programs to fund multidisciplinary care teams, the…
Health ministers moves to ‘fast-track’ specialist IMGs are too fast, AMA warns
The AMA has hit out at health ministers’ demands to fast-track specialist IMGs into the health system amid concerns their skills will not be subject…
Friends almost reunited? 5000 AMA WA members expected to be welcomed back into the fold
Five thousand doctors in WA who were booted out of the federal AMA are expected to be welcomed back into the fold in the coming…
