Guild uses bulk-billing report to spruik pharmacists diagnosing and prescribing
A company’s report that concluded 20% of GP practices offer universal bulk-billing has prompted the Pharmacy Guild of Australia to urge patients to “Think pharmacy…
Tag: Politics
Mark Butler rules out private health insurers subsidising GP visits, warning of ‘two-tier system in basic general practice’
The Minister for Health and Aged Care has “no plans” to let private health insurers subsidise GP care to compensate for Medicare’s shortfalls. Journalists asked…
One-fifth of GP practices still offering universal bulk-billing, survey suggests
A fifth of GP practices bulk-bill all new non-concessional adult patients, compared with a quarter of practices a year ago, according to a survey by…
Private hospitals want $1.3 billion taxpayer bailout or patients to pay $200 fee for every admission
Private hospitals warn facilities will close unless the Federal Government hands over a bailout of $1.3 billion, or allow them to charge patients up to…
‘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…
MPs want to stop hundreds of GP practices recruiting IMGs
Independent MPs have blasted the Federal Government for allowing hundreds of outer-urban GP practices to recruit IMGs. Two years ago, the government radically extended the…
Govt ad blitz to promote bulk-billing and urgent care clinics
The Federal Government is funding an advertising blitz that encourages patients to search for bulk-billing GP clinics. A 30-second TV advertisement is telling patients that…
5.4 million more bulk-billed GP consults a year thanks to tripled incentives: Mark Butler
The GP bulk-billing rate has climbed from 75.6% to 77.3% in the year since tripled bulk-billing incentives began, says Minister for Health and Aged Care…
Political decisions to increase GP ‘workforce priority’ areas branded a serious policy failure
Automatic access to Medicare for IMGs working outside metropolitan cities should be scrapped, a Federal Government review has concluded. It comes two years after the…
Salaried GPs would staff 1000 government clinics under Greens plan
Thousands of GPs would work as government employees under a $54 billion primary care policy that the Greens say they would push on a minority…
