Nurse practitioners will be free to bill Medicare without clinical backup from a doctor under draft laws introduced to federal Parliament today. The changes were…
Before medicine, GP Dr Jaimie Drysdale was an experienced nurse contemplating training to become a nurse practitioner. As a rural generalist in Margaret River, 270km…
The RACGP says a nurse practitioner has “deeply offended” doctors by comparing collaborative prescribing rules to domestic violence. But nurse practitioner Chris O’Donnell says he…
Queensland has become the first state to allow midwives and nurses to prescribe the pregnancy termination medication MS-2 Step. The state’s parliament passed laws on…
A Medicare urgent care centre contract worth $7.1 million has gone to five nurse-led walk-in clinics with no plans to recruit any GPs. The ACT…
Scrapping registration rules for GPs who prescribe MS-2 Step should stop the ‘abortion doctor’ stigma deterring new providers, says MSI Australia. From 1 August, GPs will no longer…
The rule that GPs must retake a three-hour training course every three years to prescribe abortion drugs is being scrapped, along with mandatory registration for…
The Federal Government is boosting rebates for nurse practitioners by 30% and removing the requirement they must work with a doctor to access the MBS…
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