‘The system is broken’: Doctor’s fight for permanent residency after 10 years in Australia
When Dr Tessa de Speville came to Australia from Mauritius aged 18, she had no idea of the bureaucratic limbo that awaited. “My brother was…
Tag: Medical politics
Pharmacist explains why he rejects 60-day scripts (it’s not for money)
GPs using 60-day prescribing to dodge the PBS authority line are unwittingly costing patients long term, a pharmacist says. AusDoc has heard from dozens of GPs…
GPs accuse pharmacists of refusing to fill 60-day scripts to protect their cash flow
Dozens of GPs say pharmacists have rejected their 60-day scripts — sometimes with no better justification than protecting their revenue. The Federal Government undermined…
Expand funding for GLP-1 RAs and continuous glucose monitors: federal diabetes inquiry
Patients with diabetes should have access to longer subsidised appointments with allied health professionals and greater access to GLP-1 receptor agonists, a parliamentary inquiry has…
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…
Greens Senator accuses ‘disingenuous’ pharmacy guild of lobbying for vapes to be made S2
For a group pushing for pharmacists to diagnose more, prescribe more and dispense more, it seems there is one place it does not want to…
It is meant to save billions, but just how many 60-day scripts are GPs writing?
If you have been rummaging around the pre-federal budget news coverage, you may have read about the billions of dollars taxpayers will be saving as…
Guild outraged over political deal to turn pharmacists into ‘vape garbage collectors’
The Federal Government’s snap decision to make vapes an OTC medicine from October has outraged the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, which says treating pharmacists as…
‘I have concluded that governments don’t really care for general practice,’ says veteran MP
Above independent MP Andrew Wilkie’s electorate office is a GP practice. It is accepting new patients, but he knows that most will face a “hefty…
Is this the next president of the federal AMA?
The federal AMA is going through a bad time on the domestic front. The organisation — once dubbed the most feared lobby machine in Canberra…
