Mark Butler will struggle to fulfil his promise of bulk-billed care for an extra 44,000 older Australians with concession cards, suggests an AusDoc survey of 500 GPs.…
The continued debate over bulk-billing often comes with an unspoken clause that concession-card holders are among those who should benefit. But Minister for Health Mark…
Successive governments should have paid out billions more in rebates for level B consultations over the past 30 years by linking indexation to wage growth…
Media conjuring has pitted a population – the majority of whom are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living – against its…
It appears that doctors are now the government’s scapegoats. With the Commonwealth budget in trillions of dollars of debt, it is reasonable that the government…
Almost all GPs and most non-GP specialists run private businesses to provide medical care in Australia. Business decisions can influence the costs of medical care,…
The survivability crisis facing general practice that many of us in the profession have been thinking about, talking about and predicting for some time is…
In his quest to work out how the world works, my three-year-old grandson is always asking why. This got me to thinking. Why, when we…
The 31 December will be my last day in general practice. The Seekers’ signature tune The Carnival is Over is an appropriate epitaph. I’ve had…
The RACGP is offering a limited number of GPs 40 CPD points to “critically review” whether they should be bulk-billing patients. Outgoing president Adjunct…
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