Workforce crisis forces Dr Jafrin Mannan to close GP practice that was her ‘baby’
Dr Jafrin Mannan opened her GP practice a few kilometres north of Newcastle in 2019, where at its peak it cared for almost 2000 patients.…
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Psychiatrists threaten mass resignation in fight with hospital bosses over low pay
Hospital psychiatrists in NSW are threatening mass resignation unless their salaries are lifted to address a pay gap they say is behind “disastrous” staffing shortages.…
Block-funding should be 40% of GP practice revenue, says govt review
A review of GP incentive payments has stuck by its draft recommendations to replace the current practice and workforce incentives with a new “payment architecture”.…
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…
‘You can’t put a price on getting a GP’: Local council spends 10% of its budget on new doctor
When a small WA town heard their GP was leaving, the council’s phones ran hot with residents urging the shire to secure another doctor. The…
Can a med school work without a university behind it? This doctor hopes so
If his plan works, Professor Stephen Tobin will be the dean of Australia’s newest medical school. He has not been asked by the government or…
The crisis facing nine obstetricians who fear another Bacchus Marsh
Dr Jason Mak is one of nine O&G consultants who have withdrawn non-urgent gynaecological care until staffing levels in their maternity unit are fixed. The…
Locum fees should be capped amid ‘excruciating’ workforce crisis, says next ACRRM president
“While we continue to have locums paid as handsomely as they are, we will continue to have excruciating workforce shortages.” Dr Rod Martin, ACRRM’s president-elect,…
How AHPRA’s over-70s suspicions are ‘sowing the seeds of destruction’ for the entire health system
AHPRA, which may need to be renamed the Australian Health Professional Retrenchment Agency, seems to be coming up with more and more ways of dismantling…
