State government reveals GP payroll tax exemption
The Queensland Government has introduced draft laws to make GPs’ ‘wages’ completely exempt from payroll tax. After a multi-year saga of state tax collectors trying…
Tag: health policy
Nurse prescribing of S4 and S8 drugs to start in 2025 but will not be ‘open slather’
Nurses have received the green light to prescribe ‘in partnership’ with doctors or nurse practitioners from mid-2025, including S8 drugs for cancer and palliative care.…
Trump’s great public health experiment: What happens when you give the car keys to the medically deluded?
The US, despite its vast resources, has long struggled to provide all of its citizens with healthcare in times of need. Vested medical and insurance…
Replacing Medicare fee-for-service with GP salaries is the fix our sick health system needs
It’s time for salaried general practice to become the norm. Access to timely, equitable, comprehensive healthcare is a human right — a right that our fee-for-service…
I’m a GP who’s worked in one of Mark Butler’s urgent care clinics
I am a GP fellow who has worked at one of the urgent care clinics in Morayfield in Queensland. I’d like to give you an…
Ex-GP turned politician behind council declaration that COVID-19 vaccines are contaminated
A local council has voted to issue a formal declaration that COVID-19 vaccines are a potential public health risk because of “synthetic DNA contamination”. It…
‘Concerns of doctors have been ignored for too long’: UK reviewing whether physician associates are safe
The training, scope and supervision requirements for the UK’s 3500 physician associates is under review after years of warnings from doctors about the “cheap medical…
Mark Butler, reading out Google reviews in Parliament doesn’t justify the millions you’re squandering on urgent care clinics
Earlier this week, Mark Butler took to the floor of federal Parliament to talk about the wonders of his Medicare urgent care clinics. He had…
Mark Butler announces new five-year degree that will allow pharmacists to call themselves ‘doctor’
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…
Urgent care clinics accused of failing to provide proper clinical handover to GPs
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…
