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Andrew Bracey
Andrew Bracey
Political News Reporter
Andrew joined Medical Observer in 2006 after graduating with a Communications degree from Charles Sturt University. He reports on medico-political issues relating to general practice, focusing on rural health, and was highly commended as best newcomer to journalism 2007 (Australian Bell Awards). Andrew also has a degree in Sport and Recreation.
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News Articles
Doctors call for stricter environmental monitoring
DOCTORS have called for a national agency to be set up to monitor and enforce consistent health and environmental standards relating to coal and coal seam gas projects.
Australian who developed cancer from diabetes drug to fight US pharmaceuticals
AN AUSTRALIAN patient who developed bladder cancer after taking type 2 diabetes medication pioglitazone (Actos, Eli Lilly) for almost two years has been added to legal action taking place in the US against two pharmaceutical companies.
Backlash over freeze on rebates
MBS rebates have been frozen and the Extended Medicare Safety Net threshold has been raised as part of sweeping savings measures included in the federal budget.
Double billing crackdown challenged
GPs have challenged the government to provide evidence justifying the need for a crackdown on ‘double billing’ of chronic disease management (CDM) and standard consult item numbers.
- PCEHR $10m injection for advanced care plan
- The sweet sound of strings
- ‘Dumbing down the health system’ – doctors dissect budget
- Budget round-up: How health fared
- The melody of music and medicine
- The federal budget: what GPs want
- MJA’s new editor seizes the reigns
- Remote GP slams cap on CPD
- ‘Hands off Medicare’, AMA tells government
- Practice breakups can be just as hard as romantic ones
- New MJA editor announced
- MSD fined $125k for code breach
- Doctors second most trusted profession
- $125k fine for conduct breach
- Government probe on over-servicing
- Legal wrangle over services
- Fix our workforce, rural docs plea
- Strike a chord for schizophrenia
- Govt gets tougher on practices with co-located services
- Qld medical board risks being sacked
- Primary pursues GP over contract dispute
- Rebate rise may save addiction specialty
- Primary pursues GP over contract dispute
- GP defies ‘exclusion zone’ contract – and judge approves
- GPs urged to app-ly their mobile skills
- Helping hand in the Himalayas
- Storytelling at its hardest
- Audit reveals surgeons’ skills
- Successful GP after-hours iPhone app launched
- Seminars may boost e-health uptake
- Study aims to take subjects’ breath away and give answers
- Mining funds could help in GP shortage crisis
- Immunisation reminder app launched
- Plea for more GP training
- Gillard spares mental health minister from chop
- Dr Mackey seriously injured
- Regional GP found guilty of professional misconduct
- Federally funded training hike ‘urgent’ to address work shortages: UGPA
- Bulk-billing reliance will undermine healthcare: AMA
- Axed GP ‘respected, highly ethical’
- ‘Soft touch’ GP rebuked over pain scripts
- State placements ‘discriminatory’
- Rural plea: solve our struggles
- Abortion laws could be changed in Tas
- Former RDAA president Dr Ken Mackey sustains serious injuries after accident
- ‘Soft touch’ GP reprimanded over pain scripts
- Supplements produce ‘expensive urine’, not results
- Call to keep chronic disease funding
- Battling to build up practice
- Choosing interns based on state may breach constitution
- Hambleton seeks re-election
- Fears over doctors working "unsafe" hours
- Curb alcohol industry lure: AMA
- GP deregistered for sexual misconduct
- Mental health survey needs doctors' support
- Chronic disease rebate overhaul vital: RACGP
- Former AVN president forced to retract advertising on black salve
- GP banned for 12 months for professional misconduct
- Doping doctors judged for prescribing practices
- More time for chronic disease management tops RACGP’s budget wishlist
- Anti-bias petition rejected
- Fly-in, fly-out locum from the other side of the planet
- Doctors warned on patient pics
- City medical schools not achieving rural goals: Dwyer
- GP leaders lauded in Australia Day honours
- City medical schools not achieving rural goals: Dwyer
- Scrap PBS authority system: AMA
- Doctors cautioned on taking patient pics
- Chiro's conduct could lead to deregistration
- Health community rocked by tragic death of Professor Gavin Mooney
- ACCC slashes authorisation period for MA code of conduct
- Sydney GP deregistered for professional misconduct with staff member
- Renewed claims GPs are 'glorified' mental health care referrers
- Vigilance crucial to keep patient records safe from cyber-criminals
- Medicare Locals brand name a ‘confusing flop’
- Female GPs earn half as much as men
- Top political issues of 2012
- Social media used to vet future doctors
- RACGP to back supervision standards
- Social media used to vet future doctors
- Win for GPs as Medicare-funded MRI scans for children begin
- Dr Lembke's dream: to provide a medical home
- RACGP set to bolster IMG supervision standards
- Social media warning for pharma companies
- Safety concerns prompt calls for detox product regulation
- $16.4m ‘virtual’ mental health clinic to be launched
- Teaching and medicine – a happy marriage
- Putting his best foot forward
- GPs want more progress on addiction, dementia
- Decades of dedication recognised
- Billing just got easier with this time-saving phone app
- Dr Pigeon’s passion for the land and its people
- Teaching: his way of giving back
- An extra $200K would lure GPs to work in the bush
- Rowing doc’s Olympic effort ends in medal miss
- Who will win the election for college president?
- MO’s Millard takes art to the skies
- Glasson eyes Rudd’s federal seat
- Olympic medico still in the hunt for gold, despite early setback
- Next generation of doctors backs campaign for gay marriage
- Two-horse race looms for RACGP presidency
- Born in 1987 like MO, Anna also strives for excellence
- A life-long commitment honoured
- World-first artificial pancreas
- WMA moves against persecution of doctors
- AMA claims ads sexualise children
- Children sexualised by ads: AMA demands inquiry
- AMA unanimously opposes non-medical prescribing
- ‘Recipe for ill health’: doctors dismiss energy plan
- Coalition, Greens urge govt to wipe dentists' $21.5m debt
- GP activist pioneer honoured at gala dinner
- Gossip mags in waiting rooms highlight neglect of men’s health
- Surgery magazines a symptom of men's neglect
- GP leaders warn of safety risk in allied prescribing plan
- SA minister 'Crazy John' Hill blasted for mobile phone splurge
- Forget about Rudd, deliver health reform, PM: Mendoza
- Govt ignores own research on alcohol warning labels
- Fast forward - 15 February 2012
- IMGs may be forced to return
- Running doctor raises funds for Black Saturday community
- Top ten - the political year that was
- GPs decry pharmacists’ script dispensing bid
- GPs want to reward loyal patients with higher rebates
- Raised from the ashes healing bodies and hearts, $9.2m complex unveiled
- Food industry attacks over junk food ad ban
- GPs want to reward loyal patients with higher rebates
- Junk food ad bans branded ‘censorship’
- Pharmacist deals damage consumer trust
- Red tape’s a ‘bureaucratic burden’
- GP nurse involvement tops 10 million consultations
- GP recognised for innovative vision
- Govt backflip on $5m Darwin super clinic
- Bulk-billing rates fall for September quarter
- The old dog can teach the young a few new tricks
- Students forced back home due to training shortages
- Nurse practitioners claim $700,000 in MBS services
- ‘Shonky’ SensaSlim scoops consumer watchdog awards
- Mental toll of climate change
- After three years backlog cleared, GPs receive letters
- Indigenous kids have lower rate of access to GPs
- Black Saturday GP running hard to rebuild community
- She’s Australia’s top GP, and from Narooma
- $5 million grant to boost Aboriginal health and help close the gap
- Medical centre caught trying to underpay staff
- Experts should help limit excess
- Stop cuts to mental health funding: doctors’ plea
- Young GP to chair revamped registrars’ board
- Poll: GPs won’t boycott Pfizer
- TGA gives green light to airport scanners
- Patients reluctant to use GPs for preventive care
- UQ: no plans for full fee in MD proposal
- General practice ‘not winning’ as the medical workforce surges
- General practice ‘not winning’ as the medical workforce surges
- Call for more pharmacist sick certificates dismissed
- Genius GPs rise to the top
- Rugby doctor sees highs and lows of life play out
- British doctors cautioned on Facebook ethics
- Alcohol warnings mere PR: experts
- Sharing a laugh
- TV portrayal of IMGs offends doctors’ groups
- Warning labels on beer too lite, experts say
- Long-term telehealth funding may fall short
- PSR shelves report to the professions
- Pay-for-performance may produce skewed results
- Reflexes key to genius success
- Practical guide to overseas practice
- Doctors’ concert is a thrill for players too
- Message in GP’s personal tragedy
- Wallet-sized genome info on the way
- Doctors’ groups in rift over Medicare Locals
- Wallet-sized genome info on the way
- GP playwright takes on WikiLeaks
- Peddlers of false allergy treatment penalised by court
- Lack of support ends physician assistant course
- Script pad headed for history bin
- Doctors’ films get screening night
- Looking back to the future
- ‘Traffic light’ food labelling idea is praised
- Division over naturopath registration
- WA super clinic criticised for delayed opening date
- Mental health needs more funding, services: AMA
- BEACH heads in new reporting direction
- Pharma industry body wants urgent talks with Prime Minister
- Mental health access program failing the needy
- New search for environmental crusaders
- Drug trial funding sources ignored
- Groundswell of support for retired GPs to retain rights
- Rural GPs forced to pull out of after-hours services
- Qld Health criticised for disaster advice
- PBS drug listing deferral draws criticism
- Funding cuts force GPs to ditch after-hours care
- Roxon defends shelving medicines destined for PBS
- Health Department defers MBS item advice to doctors’ groups
- Govt gave nod to super clinics without checking existing services
- Resistance to NP-led clinic grows
- Dick Smith joins doctors’ sustainability campaign
- Reassigning gender: the science of sex
- Doctors recognised in Australia Day honours
- Unique field clinic set up to help flood-ravaged Victorian town
- Flood bill may threaten health reform agenda
- Health check items attract more criticism
- Health check items attract more criticism
- Flood bill may threaten health reform agenda
- Flood relief fund to help RACGP members back on their feet
- RDAA calls for Govt help to keep practices open
- GPs fitting more chronic disease care into fewer hours
- Call to address rules on NP prescribing
- My christmas - Dr Anne Wakatama dreams of a quiet Christmas
- PSR panel suspended over error in selection process
- Choice of pathology provider back in GPs’ hands
- PSR panellists to resign over suspect selection process
- Electronic summary care record a waste of GP time: expert
- Doctors welcome plans to make PSR processes more transparent
- Doctors welcome plans to make the PSR more transparent
- Health reform law to make GP experience mandatory for new board
- IMG rejection sparks outrage
- Dial-an-expert psychiatry service proves popular
- Senate backs push to expand youth mental health services
- Speaking up for children
- Victory for GPs as Government puts diabetes scheme on hold
- GP says doctors being ‘forced out’ of Defence Force
- Victory for GPs as Government puts diabetes scheme on hold
- GPs rush to save man who set himself alight
- Red tape adding to ACT workforce crisis
- Rural stalwart earns prestigious accolade
- GPs fear loophole in new nurse agreements
- New super clinic woes looming for Townsville GPs
- Health reform still a long way off
- Rural obstetrics pioneer honoured
- Super clinic glitch: two for one town
- Watchdog warns GPs to be ‘critical’ with tests
- Patient confusion could hamper impact of nurse practitioners
- Rocky road ahead for health reform Bill
- Creative doctors bring visual talents into focus
- GPs still being excluded from walk-in centre consultation
- Medicare audits planned for NP agreements
- No slowdown in growing doctor shopper menace
- No slowdown in growing doctor shopper menace
- Claims super clinics used to pork barrel marginal electorates
- Money and procedural work key to luring future GPs
- Keeping it in the family
- Primary care pioneer
- Govt revises practice nurse incentive budget
- GPs fear walk-in centre plan will threaten quality of care
- 60 cent MBS rebate increase ‘fails to reflect consult value’
- GPs fear walk-in centre plan will threaten quality of care
- IMG battle for college voting rights crushed
- IMGs lose bid to earn RACGP voting rights
- Pay-for-performance schemes lack IT support
- Measuring the legacy
- Medicare Locals plan must tackle inequality: report
- New Government reintroduces unpopular Bills
- Caution urged over NP collaborative contracts
- Reform council finds COAG needs to be faster, more accountable
- Report reignites tensions over physician’s assistants
- GP argues payments key to retaining NPs
- Medicare ramps up PIP audits
- Medicare ramps up PIP audits
- Cigarette tax hike is snuffing out smoking
- The new GP power broker
- GP groups seize chance to lobby independents
- Medical grads take training posts personally
- Coffs Harbour GP overwhelmed by peer support
- Doctors string together a sellout
- Balancing act: former GPs rise to power in Senate
- Independents’ power play sparks new hope for rural health
- Rural GPs better paid than city colleagues
- Election health promises hang in the balance
- Super clinics setting up in crowded territory
- Divisions to pilot patient-controlled e-records
- Labor promise: Medicare rebates for online consults
- One in four GPs yet to decide their vote
- Parties ignore rural crisis as wait blows out
- Healthy Kids Check needs backup services, critics say
- AMA faces off with Government in new health reform rebellion
- Coalition’s health policy divides profession
- GPs urge: review nurse incentive next
- GP playwright finds all is unfair in love and war
- Abbott plan cuts aged-care incentive
- Tobacco industry accused of bid to undermine plain packaging push
- Solve the workforce shortage by coaxing retirees back: study
- Most GPs fear they’d fail an EPC item audit
- Hitting the stage to spread mental health message
- GPs win control over nurse access to MBS
- Most GPs fear they’d fail an EPC item audit
- High cost of paperwork reduces benefit of EPCs
- MBS stymies prevention
- AMA enlists patient support to stand up for GPs
- AMA mobilises patients to highlight value of family doctors
- 90% of rural and urban GPs satisfied with job
- Drop in long consults compromises prevention
- GP appeals to Health Minister for PSR review
- AMA snubs diabetes advisory group
- Moodie sacked from rugby league post after salary cap Storm
- Animated GP sells general practice to students
- Roxon defends diabetes scheme after survey backlash
- Expert claims reform think tanks biased
- Tables turned on audit of Medicare
- Expert claims reform think tanks biased
- Patel Judgement
- Fears Patel case could spark IMG backlash
- Starting medicine on the right note
- Arts profile - Dr Steve Wilson
- Election speculation casts cloud over future of health reforms
- GPs strike back at late fees accusations
- Alternative health clinic forced to stop spruiking cancer treatments
- GPs accuse Govt of playing favourites with super clinic
- Senate inquiry rejects reforms as answer to health blame shifting
- More talk, less action as prescriptions fall
- Senate inquiry rejects reforms as answer to health blame shifting
- From the crucible of leadership
- Nice knowing you: rural GPs last just 3 years
- Tribute paid to a pioneer of general practice
- Western Australia steadfast on GST takeover resistance
- Rural docs urged to tap third VR pathway
- GP claims nurse incentives will cost practice $120,000
- Govt targets HbA1c as marker of success
- Claire Jackson
- Jackson guaranteed to take RACGP top job
- Medicare survey finds audits have their upside
- Diabetes discussions vital for GPs and dietitians
- Beware the risk of ‘script-owing’ requests
- Pharmacy plans for health checks may undermine GPs
- GP shortage means many nursing home patients miss out
- Move to curb ‘GP-type’ ED presentations criticised
- Roxon opens new $2.5m super clinic
- First ACT walk-in clinic run by nurses
- Nurse grants may see practices down $30K
- Expansion grants fall short
- $355m for super clinics, but will it be enough?
- Mt Isa super clinic paralysed by year-long funding dispute
- Nurse grants could see some GPs lose income
- GPs won’t see own doctor until they’re ‘sick enough
- Diabetes scheme won’t aid team care
- Jackson backed for top RACGP job
- Legality of GP watchdog’s clinical edicts questioned
- Morton to take over key GP advocacy role
- New health blame game could be in store
- Public suspects purse is behind Govt nurse push
- Rudd’s reforms a ‘poisoned chalice’
- AMA alternative to diabetes scheme gets RACGP backing
- ACT banks on UK doctors for recruitment push
- WA docs say no to reforms
- POLL: Most GPs will snub diabetes scheme
- Guess what’s next? Primary care report cards
- Top doc tenders resignation amid football scandal
- New specialist pathway for IMGs launched
- Planned aged care incentives inadequate
- Diabetes scheme could be a future care model
- Proposed law will boost Medicare watchdog’s power over doctors
- GP income threatened by new diabetes scheme
- AMA approves pharma company CPD sponsorship
- Govt boosts GP incentive payments for aged care
- Two GPs from closed practice find local work
- AMA pitches pay plan to save aged care
- Government splashes more cash to entice GPs on diabetes scheme
- Govt cashes in as GPs snub mental health training
- Portrait of a bush crisis
- Call to expand practice nurse incentive
- Division steps in to cover gaps after practice closure
- GP shortage threatens to sink practice and super clinic plan
- Division steps in to cover gaps after practice closure
- GPs express anger over Rudd’s diabetes scheme
- NP subsidy could drain hospital staff
- Hackers try to capture patient bank details
- GP blasts division super clinic plan
- GP pharmacy ownership strongly supported
- Online anxiety tool could overturn barriers
- Nurse prescribing enshrined in law but impact remains elusive
- Prime Minister makes whistlestop tour to general practice
- Depoliticise health? Well, it’s political...
- GPs warned to comply with PBS criteria for streamlined authority drugs
- Match hospital reform with better GP deal, doctors say
- Homegrown rural obstetrics
- Youth mental health care $200m short
- Allied health fees could deter patients from super clinics
- Doctors battle pharmacists over ownership ‘hypocrisy’
- I could be crushed: GP fears super clinic fallout
- Primary’s patient numbers ‘flatten’ after billing change
- Anti-vaccination group faces shutdown
- Confusion rules in murky world of long consult claiming
- Funding cut clouds future of 24-hour GP service
- RACGP flags making staff accountable for practice processes
- Failure of authority phone line puts patients’ care on hold
- Patients keen to play their part in medical training
- Pharmacists launch bid to triage minor GP cases
- ACT GPs fight to overturn nurse practitioner approval
- Call for national IMG support scheme
- RACGP supports no-fault insurance for long-term care
- Pharmacists reject nurse-led clinics
- GP shortage clouds future of super clinic
- Push to remove tax burden from rural grants program
- Push for broader practice nurse items
- Intrapartum death seven times higher in home births
- GPs put under pressure to create team care plans: MO Poll
- Super clinics face fresh criticism
- Spotter's fee for IMGs labelled a stunt
- Progress of nurse practitioner law slowed by Senate rejection
- Call for after-hours funding to boost GP access
- Growing support for GP action group
- Nurse practitioner potential hindered by Govt delays
- Benefits schedule for prevention flagged
- GP marathon man leads by example
- Patients back GPs in reform fight
- GPs pull together to fight reform plans
- GPs ticked off at govt inaction on red tape
- GPs show solidarity against Rudd’s reforms
- GPs warned to obey the rules on team care plans
- GPs rally for day of action
- Team rules key to selling nurse practitioners to GPs
- Govt’s Preventive Health Agency Bill stalls in Senate
- Super clinic tender goes begging
- Dedicated GP wins rural award
- GPs back national media campaign on reform
- Critics fear reform plan will lead to two-tiered medicine
- Police deny push for pseudoephedrine restriction plan
- RACGP accused of ‘unfair’ IMG assessments
- Rural GPs espouse online mental health training
- Policy shift needed to sway grads to general practice
- Mental health plan training unveiled
- Marathon GP goes the extra mile for his community
- Junior doctors call for support to avoid burnout
- Registrars win RACGP fee concession
- Push to restrict rights of solo nurse practitioners
- Minister faces more heat over super clinic tenders
- RACGP voting rights a step closer for IMGs
- Holistic approach inspires GP of the Year
- Roxon defends winning WA super clinic bid as best option
- College members block move to curb voting rights
- IMG loses provider number in red-tape fiasco
- RACGP GP of the Year announced
- WA super clinic will not compete with local practices: Government
- RACGP to consider axing member voting for president
- GPs demand answers over WA super clinic contract
- Training provider sets the greening standard
- Storm brews in west over GP super clinic
- Call for independent body to implement health reform
- Financial viability of super clinics questioned
- Nurses to grab half of minor cases: expert
- Super clinic success hinges on allied MBS expansion
- Maternity nurses seek access to child checks
- GPs send clear message on reforms
- Medical input invited on nurse prescribing
- Roxon faces pressure to table preventive health report
- $1m clinic grants unattractive: Primary boss
- Keeping the country on the radar
- Nurse-pharmacist plan to charge $32 consults
- Phelps silent on Turnbull challenge
- Midwife indemnity plan may spark GP obstetrician exodus
- One-stop shop plan ‘superior to’ super clinics
- Report heralds new direction for GPs
- Cracks identified in health overhaul plan
- GP faces $8.5m shares bill
- Students focus on outback images to promote rural practice
- GPs concerned over pathology requests to restrict bulk-billing
- Doctors will shape nurse prescribing law
- AMA reignites push for GP MRI rebates
- Allied health faces Medicare scrutiny
- WA super clinic tender bids prompt local GP concerns
- More GPs are seeking help for stress, RACGP says
- Isolated GPs trade places, stay sharp
- Super clinic rollout gathers pace but not without hiccups
- GPs face cost hike from new employee award
- Provider number plan could drain bush of IMGs
- GPs spending more time fixing adverse events
- Move to social health insurance could curb health spending
- Transparency on specialist Medicare audits still lacking
- Community input may be neglected in prevention debate
- GPs frustrated over govt inaction on MBS reform
- 50 and male? You're Dr Typical
- AMA infighting puts pressure on Pesce
- AMA: no policy on health funding
- GPs ready for fight over audit transparency
- Accreditation safe from takeover by new govt agency
- Practice staff the key to profit making
- Government’s glowing report card for health unjustified: GPs
- Hospital stats back GP funding push
- Fears new workforce agency will "dumb down" standards
- Doctors and nurses call a truce on health reform
- New AMA chief pushes for simpler Medicare audits
- Companies locking GPs out of aged-care assessments
- Unis the missing link in reform commission’s training plans
- Key GP groups forego TV pharma debate
- Details scant as July MBS changes loom
- Nurse practitioners set to target after-hours grants
- Fears GPs won't have time to adapt to new MBS
- New AMA president Pesce plans to 'resolve differences'
- Ludwig defends tougher Medicare auditing powers
- Life no imitator of art in one-of-a-kind GP feature film
- GPs use household drill to save boy's life
- New MBS review reignites reform push
- GPs in Budget no-man’s land
- Bateman predicts bulk-billing slide
- Rural GP enters race for AMA presidency
- Cash-strapped patients forfeit health care
- Reform commission assures GPs managed care is not on the agenda
- OTD honoured for marathon mission to help bushfire doctors
- Nurse practitioner PBS access mooted
- Mental health services under pressure
- MBS penalties mooted for e-health avoidance
- Funding stalemate stalls super clinic plans
- New model challenges super clinics
- AGPAL secret document for Government’s eyes only
- GP groups push for $530m stimulus package
- Call for government to control practice locations
- New accreditation agency could be ‘redundant’
- Push to control complementary weight-loss products intensifies
- New push to fund point-of-care testing
- Watchdog set to intensify GP scrutiny
- Practice nurses playing more prominent role in Pap smears
- More rigorous GP education needed: coroner
- Workforce cure must focus on doctor distribution
- Call for rural institute to revamp men’s health policy
- Audit fears undermine Government’s prevention push
- GPs doubt value of kids' checks
- No rise in aged care GPs despite claims increase
- GPs reject divisions’ expanded role
- Health department loses track of rural schemes
- Corporate practices to rival Government super clinics
- Fears government review could spell end of rural initiatives
- Close shave a win for charity
- Dubious complementary medicine ads set to face increased scrutiny
- Government accused of using red tape to save dollars
- National strategy to place overseas doctors no panacea for workforce
- Push for government complementary meds adviser
- College takes preventive care to waiting room
- Critics accuse Roxon of all talk and no action
- Corporates step up super clinic bids
- RRMA review could threaten viability of rural practices
- ‘Perverse incentives’ loom with new Medicare audits
- Plans to expand pregnancy counselling helpline
- Govt bolsters mental health support for bushfire victims
- Ramped-up Medicare penalties ‘outrageous’
- Push for evidence-based approach to funding health interventions
- Report delivers plans for greater midwife role
- Divisions face radical overhaul under reforms
- Funding link to patient enrolment will see GPs compete for numbers
- New training body to fill holes in workforce
- Strong GP response to bushfire tragedy
- Online tool compares GP Medicare billing activities
- NHHRC outlines agenda for primary healthcare overhaul
- MBS to be reformed by mid ’09
- Call for system to weed out impaired docs
- GPs resign over closure of birthing services
- New early warning plan for doctor shopping
- Doctors’ groups criticised for influencing funding
- GPs reject accusations of after-hours rorts
- Economic crisis bites bulk-billing
- GP prescribing vindicates authority streamlining
- Tougher penalties flagged for Medicare offenders
- Govt’s committee overload threatens to stymie reform
- Medical students rally over hospital training uncertainty
- Mentor funding must underpin training boost
- No interest in NT super clinic impedes govt plan
- Drastic measures proposed for rural crisis
- Practice hits BRW top 100 list as profits soar
- Indigenous ingenuity
- End to free paper copies of MBS
- Rising aged-care costs may be passed on to residents
- Members may desert RACGP over hardline
- New prevention agency doubling up on bureaucracy
- Safe haven: Practice for doctor-only care opens in Melbourne
- Overseas-trained GPs’ new bid for voting rights rejected
- Practice nurse expansion held back by MBS ‘disincentives’
- Most GPs unsure when to claim for longer consults
- Division concern over Primary sacking of GP
- Roxon flags GP pay cut for ‘less complex’ work
- Federal takeover plan to revitalise rural health
- Govt trainee cap shuts out future GPs
- PIPs focus could shortchange GPs: experts
- ‘Business as usual’ for IPN after Sonic takeover
- Profession loses rural ‘champion’
- Maternity reforms could jeopardise patient safety
- Preetham calls for independent college scrutiny
- Medical deans seek govt training assurance
- GPs in NSW super clinic communities flag key concerns
- We need more workforce talks, GPs tell Rudd
- High MBS compliance but scrutiny still looms
- Short reprieve for pharma PBS fees
- Non-VR GPs’ access to higher rebates reviewed
- Prevention funding needs massive boost
- Rudd snubs GPs in his own backyard
- Flexible working hours best for family friendly practice: GPs
- New push for united GP voice
- Physician’s assistants may compromise health system
- Medicare taps into online learning for claiming clarity
- It's official: patients trust GPs most
- Prevention incentives could shortchange GPs
- ‘Trivial’ aged-care incentive unlikely to be GP drawcard
- Preetham calls in lawyers over election rift
- Patients urged to rethink emergency visits
- Most practices unprepared for flu pandemic
- Medicare weighs in to e-health record domain
- Success story shows super clinics can work
- Election loss sparks undue process claims
- GPs question draft performance markers
- Challenge could cloud Mitchell’s RACGP victory
- $2500 aged-care incentive ‘inadequate’
- Super clinics a test ground for family-friendly GP workplaces
- We’re ignored and ready to walk: GPs
- Closure a bad omen for super clinics
- New prevention items a mystery to GPs
- Corporate practice closures causing patient hardship: divisions
- Rural health office is ‘toothless’
- GPs in the dark over detail for new aged-care initiative
- Book tackles Aboriginal men’s healthcare issues
- Super clinics sure to backfire, report says
- National e-data collection by 2013
- Website helps med students prepare for Aboriginal health
- Support for wider access to MBS
- Division declares war on CO2
- Practice nurses’ night of nights
- Rural docs to lose local hospital services
- GPs believe reforms herald a bleak future
- Axe govt pharma research scheme: review
- Bush not ready for student influx
- New blueprint to jumpstart e-health records
- GP-driven prevention could leave the have-nots worse off
- PBS changes likely to spark drug cost hike
- GPs embrace green campaign
- Push for e-consult rebate for GPs
- Medical school diabetes training falls short
- Government boosts pharma research
- Prevention watchdog call splits experts
- Divisions bid to fund team care
- Top GP tipsters take honours
- Non-cash incentives inspire recruitment
- GPs reject web-based ‘Healthbook’ record
- University backs off on forcing GP to apologise
- Nation’s first e-prescribing service put to the test
- New guidelines aim to reduce adverse events
- BUDGET 08: Medicare levy changes will choke hospital access
- Prevention strategies misguided: report
- Specialists stymie IT health targets
- Boost rural student scholarships to ease workforce crisis
- Faster drug approval a safety risk
- Call for tougher reporting rules on generics industry events
- Rural GPs lack radiation therapy info
- Technology will give GPs remote control of care
- Teamwork should begin in uni to optimise patient care: expert
- Top 20 practice pacesetters honoured for high standards
- Primary rejects Symbion GP exodus claims
- $2m to improve farmers’ health
- Bush wonders blitz photo comp awards
- $20m generics campaign in limbo
- GPs slam govt delay on workforce
- Docs reject claims of high misdiagnosis rates
- Student tracker to explain rural dropouts
- Poll confirms super clinics are a very hard sell
- Budget misery likely for rural docs
- IMG orientation process rolled out soon
- GPs sidelined if divisions bid for super clinics
- Codeine crackdown set to increase GP red tape burden
- Doctors stake claim for seat on key pharma forum
- BEACH marks 10 years of data gathering
- $15,000 super clinic bait rejected
- GP academic under fire for pharma criticism
- Super clinics training boundaries vital
- Expert calls for govt role in CPD
- Is the rise in female grads a ticking time bomb?
- GP ready to quit over rebate stand-off
- Docs fear govt control of standards
- National registration a win for rural workforce
- Shorter lifespan in the bush
- Showing the country in its best light
- Govt backdown on pathology law
- Exam changes will keep IMGs out: recruiters
- No pay-off for GP’s rural loyalty
- Review of GPs’ complementary medicine know-how
- Consultant physician items prove popular
- ‘Missing’ GP just relaxing on the beach
- GP registrars at breaking point
- ACCC ruling sparks hope for uniform fees
- Rural generalist endangered
- Plan for GP cover in hospitals ‘idealistic’
- Student influx will cause training bottleneck
- Software to simplify GPs’ patient record analysis
- CPD points safe despite review
- GPs play headline role in new blueprint for chronic care
- CPD heat turns on college
- Easyclaim a difficult sell
- Funding for government’s after-hours initiative misdirected
- Symbion GP contracts won’t change: Primary
- Pathology law threatens practices
- Pharmacists set to charge for sick notes
- Software ads don’t affect prescribing: study
- Climate change hits home with GPs
- Call for ‘stringent’ checks on overseas docs
- Loading on Indigenous health work needed
- Rural HECS fund a ‘failure’
- Campaign to recruit UK docs falls flat
- Bush campaign targets students
- Doctors using old PBS schedule
- Authority time savings justify wider reform
- Downsize workload and teach, older GPs urged
- Rural retreats prevent stressed GPs from quitting
- More Australian-made docs essential
- Overseas docs want in again
- End to pharmacy dispensing ‘naïve’
- 24-hour clinic plan ‘ignores’ rural shortages
- Higher bar on life support for rural doctors
- Physician’s assistants to be trialled in Oz
- GP couple honoured
- Govt ‘fails’ with outer metro recruitment drive
- E-health spending $41.5m short
- GP takes pole position for job of a lifetime
- Rural training to include regional areas
- More GPs finding their own doctor
- Govt pledges $1 million grants for rural infrastructure
- Wanted: female all-rounder for Arnhem Land
- Doorstep emergency training flagged
- Coalition is best bet on health: GPs
- Practice managers: bigger role, bigger pay
- Compulsory CPR training in next triennium
- Teaching set-up costs prohibitive: RDAA
- More money for rural GPs ‘not the answer’
- Standards quality in jeopardy: AMA
- Call for corporate mediators
- Maternity ‘meltdown’ a real risk
- Med schools ‘anti-GP’: rural docs
- New drive to recruit rural docs
- 70% of your work to nurses?
- Plunge in IMG applications
- Move to tighten restrictions on doc ads could go national
- ACCC bid to tone down new advertising guidelines
- New standards for cosmetic clinics
- Bleak workforce outlook
- GPs face online claiming upheaval
- Strong uptake of new practice nurse item
- Bonding reform welcome but more support needed
- No room to teach
- Docs needed for peace mission
- Psych items bypass bush
- Withdrawal decision caught all by surprise
- GP diagnosis just as good as skin cancer clinics
- Red tape victory for GPs treating vets
- Blueprint for training in the community
- Rural health needs emergency help
- ‘Worrying’ dip in GP training uptake
- GPs benefit from after-hours reforms
- Move to tighten restrictions on doc ads could go national
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