Junior doctors win $230 million settlement after wage-theft class action
More than 25,000 junior doctors can apply for a share of $230 million after NSW Health agreed to Australia’s largest payout in a wage-theft class…
Tag: Workforce
Too good to be true? Practices offering GPs up to 90% of billings
Searching GP job advertisements these days turns up dozens of offers for GPs to keep 80% of their billings or more — even up to…
Medicare should fund allied health referrals direct to specialists, govt review suggests
Specialists will be free to treat patients under Medicare without a referral from a GP, a Federal Government Scope of Practice Review has suggested. The…
Psychiatrist calls for govt funding for trainees in private practice to bolster workforce
Should government funding be opened up for psychiatry trainees to work in private practice? Currently, about 50% of psychiatry fellows end up in private practice…
Govt overhauls workforce program that lets junior docs work as GPs under supervision
A controversial workforce program that lets non-VR doctors work as GPs has been overhauled, with tighter criteria on where they can work and new funding for…
‘Farcical’ workforce rules are hurting patients, says doctor-turned-MP
Health bureaucrats have “failed” on the medical workforce for decades and neglected patients in outer-city suburbs, says Labor MP and paediatrician Dr Mike Freelander. The…
Why a nurse practitioner revolution isn’t happening — even with Medicare independence
Ditching the rule that nurse practitioners must have formal doctor support to bill Medicare is unlikely to trigger a mass migration of nurses attempting to…
RACGP fumes after doctors’ relationship with nurses likened to domestic violence
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…
‘Hospitals could owe some junior doctors $60,000’: Dr Gaby Bolton’s class action triumph
“Doctors could easily be owed $60,000. And for some registrars — particularly those in very heavy overtime surgical specialties — I think it would be…
Wanted: GP hit squad to be ‘deployed at a moment’s notice’ to rescue struggling practices
A team of 10 GPs employed by the Tasmanian Government will be “deployed at a moment’s notice” to rescue struggling practices under a radical election…
