AHPRA urged to give more guidance on doctors’ crimes and their medical board punishments
The RACGP is calling for doctors to be given more detailed case studies on the sort of criminal behaviour which would lead the Medical Board…
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Meet the five GPs vying to lead the RACGP
Five GPs are in the race to replace Dr Nicole Higgins as the next RACGP president this November. Whoever succeeds will take on the political…
No backdating CPD to meet 2024 requirements, RACGP warns
Doctors will not be able to claim CPD activities completed early next year towards the current year’s requirements, the RACGP has confirmed. Last year was…
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…
RACGP demands return of $80 MBS item for COVID-19 antiviral prescribing
The RACGP is lobbying the Federal Government to bring back the $80.10 MBS item for COVID-19 antiviral prescribing that was axed on Monday. The college…
Ditching the RACGP for cheaper CPD homes is bad for general practice
It is that time of the year again, when all our professional expenses seem to be due at once. Medical indemnity insurance is always expensive,…
Cash deficits, politics and the IMG pipeline: Why medical colleges are under the cosh
Dr Death may have been a difficult personality with a misplaced confidence in his own talents. He may also have been a fraudster willing to…
Red Book undergoes revamp with new sections on first antenatal visit, anxiety and gambling
Routine screening for thyroid disease and proteinuria in pregnant women during each antenatal visit is no longer recommended, according to the latest edition of the…
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…
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…
