Another radical health experiment? The mystery of Queensland’s physician assistants plan
It’s taken a week and more twists and backflips than Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, but Queensland Health’s plans for employing physician assistants — a role…
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Govt proposes opening up nurse practitioner access to private health rebates
Patients with chronic disease management plans under private health insurance could soon claim rebates for nurse practitioner consultations under a Federal Government proposal. Currently, patients…
Govt plan to fund nurse clinic ‘on same street as four practices’ angers GPs
The Queensland Government will open a nurse clinic to provide GP-style care in central Brisbane, which the RACGP says will harm nearby GP practices and…
Nurse-led clinics costing taxpayers $195 per consult: official figures
Health officials misled the public about the cost per service at ACT’s nurse-led walk-in clinics by burying roughly $10 million in expenses, reveal documents obtained…
‘Same pay for equal work’: RACGP fears come true with Scope of Practice Review’s big ideas
Nurses and pharmacists accessing GP-level Medicare rebates and “cashing out” GP incentive programs to pay for multidisciplinary care are among the suggestions from the Federal…
AMA rubbishes claim that pharmacist prescribing will ‘ease burden on GPs’
The Federal Government’s Scope of Practice Review is pushing a wrongheaded idea that pharmacists and nurses will protect GPs from burnout by taking over the…
Is the govt’s Scope of Practice Review already set on pharmacist prescribing?
In just a few days, the Federal Government’s Scope of Practice Review will start showing its hand. When Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark…
Nurse beaten unconscious by ED patient gets $1.8 million compensation
A nurse who was beaten unconscious by a patient with dementia will receive $1.8 million in compensation, after a court found the hospital should not…
RACGP sounds alarm over Fed Govt’s scope of practice review
The RACGP is worried that the Federal Government is barrelling towards a UK-style health system based on its scope of practice review, which will start…
Nurse practitioners will be freed to bill Medicare independently of doctors under Fed Govt bill
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…
