Performing arts medicine
Performing artists have their own suite of specialised medical issues. Elizabeth McIntosh talks to a group of health professionals dedicated to addressing them.
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Quality time
A GP registrar takes time out to care for kids with cancer.
Lack of space, PIPs stunt nurse growth
OPENING up incentive grants to all practices and providing infrastructure funding are key to ensuring practice nurses become integral to every practice in Australia, GP groups say. The AMA, RACGP, AGPN as well as the Australian Practice Nurses Association (APNA) have strenuously lobbied the Federal Government to open up the Practice Nurse Incentive Payment to all practices. Currently only rural and remote practices and those in areas of workforce shortage qualify for the payment, worth up to $40,000 a year. The GP groups also want infrastructure grants for additional practice space. The pressure on the ...
Simplifying the MBS puzzle
GP registrars often struggle with the MBS, but taking advice as gospel could lead to problems.
What pharmacists want
The ink is nearly dry on the latest five-year agreement between pharmacists and the Federal Government. So what’s the verdict? Elizabeth McIntosh finds out.
- Is national registration law ‘unconstitutional’?
- Many adverse drug reactions unreported
- Genetic testing needs GP involvement
- Fears registration will be limited to one-day deadline
- Doctors’ e-health fears allayed
- The allure of academic posts
- Health identification numbers a step closer
- Pharmacy Guild denies claims of e-script bias
- Primary care reform needs $830m kickstart: AGPN
- Black saturday: One year on, the scars are still healing
- Former staffers in dispute with e-health body
- Uniform industry code of conduct on Govt agenda
- War declared on waste
- Patient e-identifier a legal risk for GPs
- Psychiatrist in running for nation's top honour
- Life expectancy for Australia's Indigenous worst by world standard
- Govt agreement delivers new incentives to pharmacists
- First GP-owned super clinic opens for business
- AMA chief to help Govt shape national disability scheme
- Pharma industry group announces new chief
- Doctors top trusted professions survey
- Doubts over efficacy of new PIP payment for Indigenous health
- GPs forced to provide Easyclaim the hard way as incentives end
- $3000 finder’s fee offered to boost IMGs
- It's official: Ads banned in practice software
- Pharmacists’ CMI criticised
- GFC takes toll on poorer patients
- Reform should recognise healing power of arts
- Light and sound create peaceful space
- Pressured pharmacies may jeopardise patient safety
- Support for GPs a casualty if divisions evolve: experts
- Population health problems need long-term fix
- E-health system crucial to reform success
- Haikerwal attackers sentenced
- AGPN plan boosts fundholding role
- Reward GPs for selling e-health to specialists
- Opposition refuses to show its hand on health
- Queensland passes national registration Bill
- Pharmacists set sights on right to vaccinate
- Plan for accreditation to rely on e-health
- National survey will measure GP violence
- Timing ‘unrealistic’ for rollout of e-health patient ID scheme
- E-health benefits don’t justify costs
- Patient care improves under pay for performance
- Better warning systems needed for extreme weather
- Privacy concerns should not delay e-health plans
- Govt threatens one-for-all code of conduct
- AGPN takes lead in new Close the Gap initiative
- Report offers solutions to ACT doctor shortage
- Costs of Medicare audits could see GP bulk-billing rate fall
- GPs’ show of protest at health reform takes shape
- Doctors face registration fee hike
- Dob-in law will ‘do more harm than good’
- GP ordered to repay corporate for breach of contract
- Pharma spending more on events but attendance falling
- Coffee advice cold comfort for fatigued rural doctors
- Doctors bombard Rudd’s rural blog
- UK to water down compulsory patient registration
- Resources boost needed for GPs to lead preventive health revolution
- Healthy doctors a bonus for patients
- Electronic patient discharge summaries finally take shape
- Safety fears over plan for truckie depression test
- GP defiant as court contract fight winds up
- NT Government amends sex reporting laws
- GP and corporate battle over contract
- Roxon urges doctors to be mindful of costs
- TGA class action back in court
- Paperless prescribing a step closer as vendors strike deals
- Legal fears over RU-486 move
- Drug adherence to be driven by pharmacists
- GPs slugged with admin costs for Easyclaim
- GPs urge caution over college data plan
- Legal experts urge triage policy review to prevent treatment gaps
- Division mergers will spell loss of GP control
- Plan to link rebate access to GPs’ e-health capability
- GP groups at odds over funding for swine flu vax scheme
- Staff support keeps costs down
- Palliative care boom
- Most GPs support axing pharmacist incentives
- Pharmacists push for e-script subsidies
- Call to arms to fight national registration
- TGA to scrutinise pharma cruise
- Meds code to cover pharma-patient link
- E-health plan lacks detail
- Threatened closure of GP clinic
- Cruise offer sparks pharma code outcry
- New bid launched to stamp out unauthorised generic substitution
- Scholarships a master stroke for Indigenous students
- Pressure rising and GPs feel the pain
- Doctor-shopping alert on fitness to drive
- Pharmacists lobby for $1 billion federal funding
- Campaign to educate future docs on pharma
- Current e-health PIPs a disincentive for GPs
- Whistleblowing doctors 'need to be protected'
- Mandatory reporting blamed for suicide
- Relishing a challenge
- Future nurse lawsuits may drive up GP indemnity costs
- Doctors given wake-up call over standards control fight
- Doctor lawsuit could reshape mandatory reporting laws
- Demands for swine flu all-clear stretching GPs
- Nurse scripts under PBS microscope
- Changes to NT sex reporting laws delayed
- GPs face pleasure and pain with new indemnity rates
- Division acts on swine flu protection
- Legal concerns over medical abortions
- Bushfire GPs make do with basics as reality bites
- GPs recognised for making ‘a difference for the better’
- GPs fear patients will risk their health by resorting to cheap drugs
- Doctor groups roll out urgent pandemic training
- GP thrives on green commitment
- Move to simplify fitness-to-drive system
- Patient-controlled records could lead to confusion
- Complaints over GP medico-legal reports rising: expert
- Doctors warned: check insurance before volunteering
- Medicare admin burden being pushed onto GPs
- E-health conspicuously absent from Budget funding: experts
- Door opens to GP competency tests
- Doctors to keep control of standards in national registration scheme
- GP group flags plans to euthanase authority system by Christmas
- Mandatory reporting laws ‘unworkable’
- Time-savvy GPs can extend their working lives
- Doctor lobbying wins $20m funding
- Pharma sponsorship deal faces scrutiny
- GPs face Medical Director fee hike after ad removal
- Economic crisis could water down forecasted GP retirement numbers
- Fears underage sex laws will undermine GP teen consults
- Bushfire counselling in doubt as government funding bypasses division
- Training needed to benefit from fast broadband
- Code of conduct has ‘limited’ use
- GP training needed to benefit from fast broadband network
- Value of new Government Easyclaim subsidies disputed
- Floods force GPs to go back to basics
- GP stabbing sparks new safety fears
- Two GPs struck off for patient assaults
- GP missing on coastal bushwalk
- D-day looms for e-health standards
- MO tipster’s safety device gets TV airing
- Practice closures push ACT GP shortage to crisis point
- Massive support for suspended GP
- Numbers up, costs down for pharma events
- Practices face $50,000 loss under PIP changes
- Call to include complementary meds evidence in clinical software
- Review reignites debate over RACGP elections
- Rebirth of obstetrics diploma should attract GPs
- GP obstetricians reluctant to use locum service
- Growing support for legalised abortion in NSW
- Queensland Labor victory sets stage for national registration
- Doctor lobbying sparks revamp of draft AMC code
- National registration hangs on Queensland election result
- Govt names committee to steer national registration
- Broadband grants set to boost rural telemedicine
- Mandatory reporting laws are expected to go national
- Cultural divide drives complaints against IMGs
- AGPN wants divisions to map own future role
- Online medical encyclopaedia launched
- Blow for cosmetic surgeons as ACCC rejects draft code
- Study highlights urgent need for software drug alert standards
- GP minister seeks alternative to national registration scheme
- GP survivor of Victorian bushfires starts over
- Doctor struck off for dealing steroids
- On the frontline of tragedy
- Legal fears over code of conduct
- Divisions revolt over ‘naive’ health vision
- Cool post
- Aboriginal plant lore now online
- Safety concerns spark GP innovation
- Debate over GP clinical software ads intensifies
- Physios make new bid for MBS rights
- Australia Day honours for GP heroes
- African adventure
- Student training critical to telemedicine success
- New IMGs need more intensive Aboriginal cultural training
- Patients want GP pharma disclosure
- Fears laws could deter reporting
- Practice firebombing reignites concerns over GP safety
- GP revels in race around the world
- Family comes first for GPs in 2009
- $1.6 billion boost for Indigenous health
- Call for overhaul of e-health body
- More data on abortions needed
- Claims fall and law reform prompt 2009 premium cuts
- Fears NT domestic violence law could deter patients seeking help
- Medical media under scrutiny for pharma company links
- Legal action less likely with electronic records
- GP’s skin cancer care found to be inadequate
- Self treatment push a threat to patient safety
- GP accuses territory government of underpaying remote doctors
- Registrar’s toy drive set to bring Christmas cheer to Indigenous kids
- E-health privacy threat for small towns
- Study to map adequacy of patient care
- ‘Dob in’ law a backwards step: docs
- Indigenous rewards for alcohol progress
- Fewer claims but more GP reports
- Government plan could inflate GP registration fees
- Govt leaves door open for ‘another Dr Reeves’
- Overseas-trained doc challenges RACGP over fellowship rejection
- NT receives praise for e-health initiatives
- GP recognised for exceptional work
- Doctors told to lobby for greener communities
- New website aims to help GPs sort out funding
- Support grows for govt-subsidised pharma research
- Psych testing could target best students for bush
- Undergrad training under one umbrella can boost rural health
- Intervention success hinges on long-term docs
- Pro-life med students rethink careers after abortion reform
- Abortion Bill one step closer to becoming law
- Divisions network settles on new chair
- Push for compulsory background checks
- New divisions network boss outlines GP vision
- Call for TGA transparency
- Nurse practitioners’ expansion ‘inevitable’
- Divisions network is ‘losing touch’ with GPs
- Conscience conflict over abortion law
- Streamline adverse reaction reporting: experts
- First walk-in nurse clinic plan sparks concerns
- ‘Feeble’ evidence for mandatory flu shots
- Push for fast-tracked route to pharma market
- New bid to overturn federal euthanasia ban for territories
- Plan to axe MBS abortion subsidy will face Senate committee scrutiny
- Doctor hoping to earn just deserts for running feats
- Conference set in virtual world
- Pressure on pharma industry to get tougher on code breaches
- Prominent AMA figure stood down
- New book could shape Indigenous policy
- Abortion debate moves into national arena
- Code falls short on research issues
- Health figures’ pharma ties to be revealed online
- Rural GP elected to key divisions post
- New advice fails to quell mandatory reporting fears
- Medical school entry coaching under fire
- Dispute over objective drug advice survey
- Lawyers hinder alternative compensation system
- TGA rules out internal inquiry over Pan
- Pharma-sponsored CPD should be downsized: academics
- Divisions split over allied health push
- Phone consults a legal minefield
- NT intervention needs better direction
- Preventive care stymied by MBS limits
- CSL plans record $3.6 billion takeover
- AGPN critic eyes board seat
- New laws needed for e-health vision
- More complain to medical boards
- ‘On country’ living reduces chronic disease
- Doctors criticise sudden spread of mandatory reporting laws
- Cool response to draft e-health blueprint
- Obstetrician may face criminal court
- Doctor hearings go public and lose peer review
- Not quite so complementary after all
- Medpedia to transform health info
- National cosmetic surgery laws flagged
- Cape York needs GP-led intervention
- Skewed stats compound Indigenous hardship
- Pharmacy push threatens GP income
- E-health discussion paper ahead of its time, literally: expert
- Pharma hooks into online network craze for research
- Independent body should control new drug info: consumer watchdog
- Distance denies dads’ bonding with newborns
- Drop in malpractice claims – a symptom of doctor shortages?
- GPs urged to take control of Internet identity