GP practices will get 28-day warning before accreditation visits under watchdog’s proposal
Assessments with one month of notice or an extended accreditation cycle with at least one mid-cycle review are the two main options in a proposed…
Tag: General Practice
So are GPs going to embrace mass bulk-billing? The AusDoc survey results
“These politicians are promising what they can’t promise!” This is the quote from Adjunct Clinical Professor Karen Price this week. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling…
Near-total relief ‘ambitious but achievable’: New advice raises the bar for migraine treatment success
Actual days per month with migraine symptoms is a better target for treatment success than the long-accepted standard of a 50% reduction in migraine days,…
March into an MBS rebrand — AusDoc’s Quick Guide to video, phone and COVID-19 items
From 1 March, existing MBS ‘telehealth’ attendance items will be referred to as ‘video’ items. The MBS item numbers, descriptors and rebates remain otherwise the same,…
March MBS Quick Guide — ready for download
AusDoc’s MBS Quick Guide for March is now available. Use this quick guide as a handy reference for in-practice billing needs for some of the most…
The next Dr Monique Ryan? GP running for Parliament says former patients her ‘most dedicated volunteers’
GP Dr Verity Cooper had planned to spend retirement getting fit and seeing friends. That is until she discovered Independent for Sturt, a campaign group…
We need a new strategy to reverse falling vaccination rates in Australia
Child vaccination is one of the most cost-effective health interventions. It accounts for 40% of the global reduction in infant deaths since 1974 and has…
Rent-a-quack: The Lucy Letby case has me reflecting on our own medical expert issues
In a recent Medical Observer opinion piece on the Lucy Letby case, Professor Amel Alghrani argued that relying on expert doctors in criminal medical cases could…
Add Buruli ulcer to nationally notifiable disease list, experts say in updated guidance
Buruli ulcer should be a nationally notifiable disease amid increasing cases and spread to non-endemic parts of Australia, according to the authors of new management…
‘Old boot soup to the starving masses of GPs’: What a former RACGP president thinks of the billions for universal bulk-billing
Adjunct Clinical Professor Karen Price is the RACGP president who four years ago urged GPs to abandon universal bulk-billing given the paucity of Medicare rebates…
