25 years - and what a change
The MO readership survey paints a picture of a seismic shift in general practice over the past 25 years, writes Mark O’Brien.
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RACGP delays African GP’s rural relocation
Despite spending about $400,000 building a new house and upgrading the local GP surgery, residents of a small NSW town are still not convinced a Botswanian doctor will be allowed to practise there.
E-health billing green light hailed as a ‘breakthrough’
GPs have finally been given clear permission to bill Medicare for the time they spend organising a patient’s e-health record, with new explanatory notes added to the MBS that doctors’ groups have hailed as a breakthrough.
GPs short-changed over the years
MOST GPs believe their earnings relative to other doctors are worse today than when they first started practicing, while more than 40% believe their average earnings have also declined, according to MO’s 25th anniversary reader survey.
Government urged to move fast to replace rural system
RURAL GPs have welcomed a Senate committee recommendation to scrap the much-maligned system currently used to determine incentive and support payments to doctors in the bush, and called on the government to act fast.
- Indigenous med student rise helps close the gap
- Home-brew nitrogen to exit life: Nitschke
- Govt urged to act fast in scrapping rural incentive system
- E-health billing gets green light
- Doctors criticise circumcision ban proposal as ‘discriminatory’
- Indigenous medical student increase helps close the gap
Poll: What are your views on signing forms for immunisation objectors?
- Plea for GPs to 'engage' with anti-vax patients
- Are new guides causing ‘indicator burnout’?
- Call for crackdown on UMAT prep courses
- Focus on performance, not body size
- Helping patients is a ‘real honour’
- Smokers’ rights group ‘Pythonesque’
- Are new guides causing ‘indicator burnout’?
- Call for crackdown on UMAT preparation courses
- Experts in the dark over patient e-health control
- Senior doctors harness grey vote
- AMA, RACGP demand double training payment
- Found a nifty app? Share and win eMIMS
- Driving out CAM courses more harmful than good
- Training selection begins, hundreds still to miss out
- Clear path connects the future’s medical educators
- Laws did not cause euthanasia rise
- Smokers’ push for rights likened to Monty Python
- ‘Let’s make e-health work’?: AMA and RACGP
- GPs wary of vax objector forms
- Do you have a favourite app? Enter our Awesome Apps competition
- Skype’s the limit for telehealth consultations
- Alcohol reps on committee queried
- Bill to make pharma disclose doc payments
- Fast Forward - 17 July 2012
- Nurse clinic branded a divisive failure
- GP creates Skype site for telehealth consults
- Osteopath guilty of $14,000 billing fraud
- Call for secure messaging as Coalition demands e-health audit
- IMGs urged to participate more in their professional organisations
- ‘Importing’ IMGs no solution for rural GP shortage
- RACGP says IMGs need mentors
- IMGs can save rural practice
- Survey: rural GPs at risk of violence at work
- Murtagh, a legend of general practice
- PSR to make return after 18-month forced hiatus
- Punctuation a stumbling block for e-health
- Government slammed over attempt to block alcohol labels
- IMGs could face overhaul of English skills test
- Drilling to save a boy’s life
- RACGP seeking feedback on performance indicators
- Sydney GP fined $10K for supplying steroids
- Greens to introduce drug sponsorship transparency law
- Punctuation a stumbling block for e-health
- Pharma hopes to avoid 'witch hunts' in financial disclosure
- Warning: e-health inherently insecure
- Privacy Commissioner: know your e-health obligations
- Rego hike accepted, but doctors call for a cap
- Tread cautiously around e-health
- Two-horse race looms for RACGP presidency
- New e-script monitoring should be ‘priority’
- GPs make the top 10 list for charitable donations
- Sports attempt to break alcohol link
- MBA announces fee increase, but less than CPI
- Profession prepared to endorse PCEHR contract
- Elective surgery eluding patients as GPs call for transparent wait lists
- Video campaign to lobby for "independent" PSR body
- More people avoiding GPs due to expense
- Pharmacy Guild fears heavy discounts threaten industry
- 25 years in health
- GPs make the top 10 list for generosity
- Find another solution, IMG importation is not the answer: RDAA
- Last minute talks trigger 'breakthrough' in e-heath endorsement
- E-health 'bank-strength' secure, but online registration scrapped
- Retrospective PSR legislation passed in parliament
- Medical insurers still refusing to endorse e-health records
- GPs urged to update HIV treatment knowledge
- Nitschke Facebook plea on registration
- Behind The News - 19 June 2012
- Aussies back Disney’s junk food ad boycott
- Medical school to bridge health inequality
- Call to govt to find 500 internships
- More people avoiding GPs due to cost
- Nitschke's Facebook campaign to stay alive
- E-health snubbed over liability concerns
- Primary health care ‘oversold’
- Melbourne council appeal: Plibersek, help us attract GPs
- Behind The News - 12 June 2012
- TGA set to implement investigations into CAMs
- Generalist pathway for bush GPs on offer
- Aussies throw weight behind Disney's junk food ad boycott
- Premiums may skyrocket due to e-health
- TGA to implement complementary medicine investigations
- E-health record conditions still up in the air
- E-health software products to be available to GPs within months
- AMA challenges ANF pay rise for practice nurses
- Reprimand reversed for 'doctor denial' GP
- Prescribing ‘competency areas’ launched
- Outdoor smoking snuffed out in NSW
- Statin discounting may go to conduct committee
- City GPs blamed for putting students off the bush
- Government ‘clueless’ on impact of incentive payments cessation
- Go-go gadget GP gets the most from new tech tools
- Fast Forward - 29 May 2012
- AMA to challenge practice nurse pay rise
- GPs question record bulk billing rates
- Graduate boom could see 600 miss out on AGPT training
- GPs don’t just preach, they also practise healthy lifestyles
- GPs replace nurse practitioners at Qld clinic
- Hypnotherapist banned for inappropriately touching patient
- Head injury effects ‘overblown’ by media
- Medical indemnity claims highest in general practice: AIHW
- Court battle over as Victorian loses fight with Vioxx manufacturer
- Back to the future - nurses replaced by GPs in Brisbane clinic
- Plibersek launches e-health marketing blitz
- Over-75s may face MBA performance testing
- Fast forward - 15 May 2012
- Community takes time out to say thanks
- Doctors need to study alternative medicine
- AMA conference to celebrate 50 years
- PCEHR $233m commitment welcomed
- Govt labelled ‘hypocritical’ over new 80-20 breach laws for PSR
- Internship shortage could threaten enrolments
- IMGs cite discrimination in report
- IMGs figure strongly in workforce
- Centrelink tops 'red tape' frustration list in AMA survey
- Sticks and no carrots as govt pushes GPs on e-health records
- Govt branded 'hypocritical' over revised PSR laws
- Retrospective PSR legislation introduced by Minister Plibersek
- Budget key points - Budget targets PIP for e-health, immunisation
- Circumcision may be cut from MBS
- Boehringer Ingelheim fined $125,000 for conduct breach
- GPs should ask nurses to assist in telehealth
- Rural classification incentive system ‘crazy stuff’
- Action required now to combat expected shortfalls
- Time running out for $6000 telehealth incentive
- Challenging time for new GPET chair
- Payment bungle may lead to rural doctor ‘avalanche’
- Doctors need to study alternative medicine: experts
- Blame game over rural docs’ $1 million payback
- International students to be given more support
- MBA to release new social media policy
- ‘We’ve been clear’: dept rejects PCEHR criticism
- Call for release of national health workforce plan
- Bill to exempt dentists from PSR investigation
- Rurality scheme under fire, again
- Behind the news - 24 April 2012
- Nominations open for RACGP Awards
- Young GPs do same hours as septuagenarians
- MBA should keep docs’ health service independent
- IMG clinical exam on way out?
- Hopes HWA plan will deliver enough GPs
- Exposed: E-health log-on security risk
- Govt should fund e-health: Psychologists add their voice
- Fury over claim alcohol warnings could prompt abortions
- Safety warning on "unregulated and unmonitored" e-health
- PCEHR registration to be rewritten
- Govt to spend $12m on suicide hot spots
- Health department reversal on PCEHR liability
- Young GPs work same hours as septuagenarians
- The best discipline of them all
- GPs demand e-health clarity
- Nothing to fear: GP performance indicators will be ‘voluntary’
- Push to decriminalise drugs draws mixed response
- Behind the news - 10 April 2012
- Air force GP wants you to consider general practice
- AMA proposes PCEHR consult items and fees
- E-health liability to fall to GPs: govt plan
- GPs demand e-health clarity
- PCEHR explained in AMA draft guide
- Doctors-only clinic 'interesting experiment', but a waste of resources
- PCEHR set-up payments still in doubt
- Doctors to be paid for PCEHR set-up
- More GPs, yet ratio to population still dropping
- Proportion of GPs falling as students seek specialities
- Rush to MDs may ‘bankrupt’ health
- Corporate practices deny claims of poor commitment to training
- Report recommends review of IMG 10-year moratorium
- E-health sparks ‘seismic shift’ amid GPs, specialists
- Students channelled into general practice via peers
- Trainees bring hope for end to WA GP shortage
- Fast forward - RACGP ten years on
- Plan for GPs to advise on cosmetic surgery
- General practice centre stage in Qld election
- Conflicting recommendations spur hot debate over PCEHR
- We will rebuild general practice: Coalition's election promise
- Experts debate need for more rural med schools
- GP fights for answers over wife’s care
- IMGs still face challenges in remote placements
- RVTS-enrolled doctors enjoy support equal to big city counterparts
- MBA: No new definition, but full rego isn’t necessary
- Physios launch bid for e-health record funds
- GPs the ‘missing link’ in palliative care provision
- Intern logjam could cripple med schools
- The flu doesn’t stop 90% of Aussies working
- Navigating the MBS now easier as service unveiled
- Fight for Senior Active category still going strong
- Govt and doctors blast pharmacists for running down stock
- MBA: No new definition, but full registration isn't necessary
- 'Unethical': NHMRC to reveal stance on homeopathy
- Independents pressure govt to expand bowel cancer screening
- Workers soldier on with flu - but don't want to catch it at work
- Unravelling the e-health myths
- Race on for RACGP top spot
- Govt plan to boost PSR power causes division in the ranks
- Pharmacy agreement probe still going ahead
- Detailed picture of GP workforce to be unveiled
- Ignore stereotypes and offer OST, GPs told
- Rural generalist pathway initiative one step closer
- Study examines what makes Gen Y docs tick
- Gender based abortion could be legally justified
- More patients buying medicines online due to cost
- Behind the news - Chronic disease MBS items
- RACGP presidential race kicks off with two vying for top spot
- PSR legislation review could lead to PBS restrictions
- Willcock departs GPET after seven "enjoyable" years
- Exploit GPs or patients to pay: PCEHR dilemma
- Minister to share vision at annual GP registrar forum
- Timing’s the key when it comes to good reviews
- Doloxene cancellation due to its exit efficacy: Nitschke
- New recruit for GP drive in Top End
- Remote scheme becomes a success story
- Non-medical prescribing watchdog needed: UGPA
- Timing’s the key when it comes to positive doctor reviews
- Jumping on the telehealth bandwagon
- MDOs join call for e-health delay
- Gag order from Qld Health upsets students
- MDOs join call for e-health delay
- GP to fight on over wife’s palliative treatment
- Alcohol should be monitored like drugs
- Behind the news - personally controlled electronic health records
- Record number of GP training places filled
- Gag order from Qld Health upsets students
- Ratings websites a sore point with doctors
- Faith lost over e-health record, few GPs see value
- Govt moves to overrule court on PSR
- Fears over NP paperwork are ‘overblown’, GPs told
- Patients okay with doctors disclosing pharma payments
- Students oppose Curtin med school
- GP to fight on over wife’s palliative treatment
- Calls for alcohol inclusion in drug monitoring system
- Debate rages over GP management plans
- Govt free to appeal PSR court decision
- Exposing Medicare rorts
- Debate rages over management plans
- GPs to face $25 hike to fund national doctors’ health program
- GPs can refuse nurse practitioner referrals
- Doubts e-health record launch will deliver
- Rift between doctors and pharmacists widens over push for inquiry
- Call to cut funding to unis that don’t fill rural targets
- Bureaucratic barriers blamed for IMG hardship
- Patients OK with doctor pharma payments
- Med students say new school won’t solve shortages
- NEHTA a secret, 'toxic workplace'
- Doctors accused of ‘turf’ protection on dispensing issue
- Pharmacists claiming for meds dispensed to dead patients
- Country GPs sweep Australia Day honours
- Wind power similar to asbestos, tobacco industries: NSW GP
- Regular GP visits lower BP and weight
- Nitschke to face AHPRA for possible barbiturate breach
- Rural conscription no answer to shortage
- Pay more for education, med students told
- GPs warned to look out for resistant TB strain
- ‘Nano sunscreen like asbestos’: Greens MP criticised
- Doctors dispute Medicare misuse
- Medicare misuse rampant: Webber
- Alcohol induced endorphins explained
- NSW GP banned from drinking
- GP hotline four times pricier than a VMO
- Frustration as e-health questions go unanswered
- Cosmetic surgeon fined and banned from hormone prescribing
- Experts reject claims GPs to fund PSR
- Check breast implants for rupture, patients told
- Festive spirit eluding the young
- GPs urged to reject ANF enterprise claims
- GPs reveal big issues for 2012
- Anti-vax views ‘nonsense’: Health Minister
- SA GPs to plug into e-health
- Confusion over VMO payments as audit shows cracks
- ACT nurse clinic expansion draws AMA fire
- Plibersek acknowledges GP's role
- Tanya Plibersek takes Health reins
- Junk food self-regulation ‘not working’
- $7b spend on beauty treatments
- AMA accuses Wilkie of ‘bad deal for Tasmania’
- IMG with disabled child can stay
- Family festivities are just what the doctor ordered
- Two GPs killed in Qld light plane crash
- Veterans’ home health care trial hailed ‘visionary’
- Two GPs dead in Queensland plane crash
- E-records legislation to be investigated
- Telemonitoring trial points to GP future
- Patients satisfied with GP experience
- New rural health agency must deliver: Oakeshott
- Rebuilding the face of PSR
- ‘Aggressive’ AHPRA costing GPs money
- GP division tackles rural youth suicide
- IMG with disabled child can stay in Kimberley
- Psychologists appeal to ACCC over two-tier Medicare rebate system
- Social media can protect patients
- GP staff give hidden help with repeat prescribing
- Webinars to help young doctors get the experienced touch
- GP division tackles rural youth suicide
- Social media can protect patients
- IMG with disabled child can stay in Kimberley
- GPs retiring faster than being replaced
- Stick to evidence, pharmacists told
- Stuck, but GPs find a way home
- Coalition promises to ‘rebuild general practice’, reduce red tape
- GPs told to hand work to nurses, pharmacists
- GPs unhappy with ‘crazy’ rural classification system
- Registrars aplenty in remote West Australian wilderness
- Rural excellence recognised
- PSR appoints Bill Coote as permanent director
- No insurance leads to GP’s 10-week suspension
- More Indigenous access to primary healthcare with increase in services
- Rural doc flies his own plane home
- ‘Every day a surprise’ for award-winning rural GP
- Review by AMA as industry ethics queried
- Fee splitting of claim recovery rejected
- Review by AMA as pharma ethics queried
- Call to better support GPs’ language skills
- International students not assured place
- GPs are not ‘fat cats’, AMA tells Roxon
- Senate flags new powers for PSR
- Gen Y study aims to tap into career attitudes
- Fels takes reigns of new mental health commission
- Fear MDs will lure students into specialities
- GPs reject claim they are paid to enrol patients in drug programs
- IMG with special-needs child waiting on visa decision
- GPs reject claim they are paid to enrol patients in drug programs
- Gen Y study aims to tap into career attitudes
- Social networking used to improve mental health in young
- Remote training helping to keep GPs in the bush
- Australia ‘lagging behind’ in radiation standard care
- Millions more to improve rural and remote care
- Former chair baffled over RACGP dumping
- E-health security may cost government $10m
- Broad inquiry into bush health services welcomed
- Rebates set to rise, but still short of inflation
- Broad inquiry into bush health services welcomed
- Fels to chair Mental Health Commission
- Vaccine myths rife among Australians
- Rebate rise fails to match inflation
- Merck Serono fined for promoting drug
- Overhaul: GPs want registration changes for non-clinical work
- Paper files still safer than electronic records: experts
- Remote area healthcare placements hit 1000 mark
- End of Blackmores deal welcomed by doctors
- VMOs urged to seek advice on contracts
- College unveils standards for telehealth and e-security
- Blackmores kills ‘Coke and fries’ deal after public outcry
- Rural GPs defend the number of IMGs
- NT docs disgusted by detention of 100 children in Darwin
- Nitschke gets supply of banned sedative
- RACGP advice on MBS rejected by doctors
- Patient trust put at risk by pharmacist ‘companion selling’
- Govt reverses decision on 48 PBS drug deferrals
- Pharmacists call for Blackmores deal scrapping
- ACRRM now fully accredited
- Govt backdown on PBS listings
- Medical students rejoice as entitlement scheme cap topples
- GPs top the list of patient complaints
- Lack of intern places leaves students feeling ‘betrayed’
- GPs expected to set up e-health: Roxon
- We can handle the surge in renewals: AHPRA
- Nitschke to import banned barbiturate
- Blackmores deal will destroy trust in pharmacists, doctors say
- Webber wants PSR powers expanded
- New nurse-led clinic ‘destined’ to fail
- Webber wants PSR powers expanded
- GPs expected to set up e-health: Roxon
- Indigenous suicide prevention to be tackled
- Diagnosis? Elementary, with help from ‘Watson’
- GPET star will use prize money to fight worms
- Call to boycott Pfizer goes unheeded by GPs
- IMGs need support, not Shakespeare
- Doubts AHPRA can handle renewals
- Privacy override could ‘undermine confidence’ in e-health system
- Beckoning GPs to the bush
- Will you boycott Pfizer?
- Diagnosis? Elementary, with help from ‘Watson’
- TGA weighs up consumer warning
- Fund to fight for fairer scale for bush doctors
- Graduates get great start at practices
- More support needed to keep rurally trained GPs in the bush
- Cream of the crop take out top honours
- Charge insurers for time, GPs urged
- Boycott Pfizer, pharmacists urge GPs
- Naturopaths say ‘substandard’ GPs putting public at risk
- Charge insurers for time, GPs urged
- GPET Awards recognise general practice heroes
- TGA considers warning labels for complementary medicines
- New era of practice care as assisting students graduate
- Percussionist GP to play more than the bones
- Disagreement over PSR support for doctors
- Doctors divided over fairest pay model
- GPET celebrates 10 years of guidance
- Workforce shortage claim scorned
- Nurse clinic founder rejects AMA concerns over patient safety
- Anti-vax advocates continue battle against HCCC
- Being a GP, experience is key
- Passing on the importance of good mentoring
- Remote healthcare to be made safer
- Chiro struck off for sexual misconduct
- Doctors speak out over detainees
- Nitschke to apply to TGA for euthanasia drug
- Minister gives conditional support to WA med school
- GPs ‘victimised’ by PSR, Senate told
- MLs go corporate with ribbon logo
- Govt seeks more time in PSR case
- Their future in your hands
- Coordinated care aims to keep veterans out of hospital
- Bulk-billing GPs more accepting of teaching during consults
- Having a ball juggling two roles and studies
- Music makes nice change for medicos
- IMGs are among GPET hopefuls
- SensaSlim under renewed scrutiny
- Call for action over non-immunised chiros
- Violence against rural med staff: roundtable to investigate
- Calls for inquiry on rural incentives system
- Sampling all general practice has to offer
- Hambleton refuses to back down in asylum stoush
- GPs with fee-paying patients less likely to take on students
- SensaSlim case dropped, but Harvey now faces $1m claim
- GP script restrictions questioned
- Dr Bill Coote to head PSR
- Late-blooming GP realises her lifelong dream
- Don’t emulate NZ PBS model: experts
- E-health records privacy may pose health risks
- Wide support for real-time prescription monitoring call
- Classification system hurts rural practices
- Cheaper fees for senior GPs could penalise others
- Doctors line up to challenge PSR findings
- Cheap fees for senior docs could mean hike for the rest
- Naturopath banned for inappropriate touching
- Cheaper fees for senior GPs could penalise others
- In tireless pursuit of proof
- Keeping it in the family
- Story comp judge seeks wow factor
- Privacy for GPs too, pharma law conference told
- Registrars vie for training places
- Chiropractors under fire for dubious health claims
- In tireless pursuit of proof
- Medical students to participate in Code Green Week
- Hepatitis fails to find Australian ambassador
- Video comp winners are budding filmmakers
- Doctor found guilty over nuchal scan result error
- Indigenous health clinic start-up wins plaudits for savvy GP registrar
- Rejected: Record number of doctors miss out on GP training
- Psychological impact of PSR to be studied
- GP Supervisor costs under review
- AMA to scrutinise red tape burden on family doctors
- MO writing comp spurs on winner
- Thousands picking up the phone for after-hours medical advice
- Doctors use laws to get rural report public
- Indigenous health report outlines care needs
- WA doctor again guilty of misconduct
- Financial benefits to registrars as educators
- Costs of training set to increase
- Genital mutilation sentence to be appealed
- Study backs nurse case management
- AHPRA fee hike draws GP wrath
- Senate PSR inquiry could prove a double-edged sword
- GPs initiate Senate inquiry into PSR
- Happy ending to immigration tussle
- Telehealth incentives aid rural GPs
- Rural GPs’ website set to reduce doctor isolation
- Rural GPs hit by new remote classification
- Permanent artificial hearts one step closer
- Nurse practitioner guide released
- Nurse practitioner guide released
- GPs recognised in Queen’s Birthday honours
- GPs need more information on alternative medicine use
- GSK paid doctors and sponsors $2m
- Deluge of data poses legal risks for e-health
- AHPRA changes to be tested with Qld renewals
- Telehealth delays despite GP cash
- Loophole leaves GPs in performance authority sights
- Loophole leaves GPs in performance authority sights
- Senior GPs urged to join PSR panels
- GSK admits paying doctors and sponsors $2 million
- Govt couples telehealth rebates with $6000 set-up payment
- ‘Dismal’: Senate blasts AHPRA’s role in national registration
- New calls for WA mandatory reporting model
- Unforeseen costs in diabetes pilot a risk
- Foundation aims to hit rare diseases for six
- GP designs memory aid for smartphones
- AMA warning on e-health records
- ‘Senior Active’ doctor registration gathers support
- Genetic testing a useful tool for future GPs
- GPs split on best way to tackle climate change
- Seeing own GP reduces emergency admissions
- Dr Matthew Nott - Clean Energy for Eternity
- GP reprimanded for co-opting receptionist for procedures
- Liberal doctors back plain packs for cigarettes
- GPs divided over carbon tax plans
- Just what the doctor ordered
- Work with us on Medicare Locals, Roxon tells AMA
- Eternal campaigner for environment
- Tobacco industry gets AMA Dirty Ashtray Award
- Liberal doctors back plain packs for cigarettes
- GP disciplined for untrained cosmetic procedures
- Med students’ bush jobs better due to difficulties
- Green award for training providers
- Listening is the key skill
- Dental health next on Govt reform agenda
- Budget bypasses e-health incentive
- Unfinished business awaits
- GP-ranking website ‘unworkable’
- Seeing own GP cuts emergency admissions
- Having own GP is best for patients
- PSR under pressure
- Dental scheme referral validity needs clarity
- Reel enjoyment at doctors’ film night
- Seek more information to help smokers, GPs told
- Prescribing changes needed to meet e-health deadlines
- Indigenous rates of syphilis buck national trend
- Call to relax doctor reporting laws questioned
- Hambleton to take AMA reins
- New program to monitor medicine use
- Dental scheme to end when Govt can pass legislation
- Budget cuts to mental health rebates slammed
- GSK to release doctor payments
- Rural doctors urge ML rollout
- Further PBS constraints predicted
- National registration fee hike has failed to deliver
- Queensland GP poised to take on AMA leadership
- Vaisman prepares defence for AMI treatments
- Govt urged to end ML rollout delays
- Opposition steps up mental health promises ahead of Budget
- Good patients are best doctors
- Benefits of research disclosures questioned
- Rural and remote practices benefit from funding grants
- Impact of retirement rules hits home for dispirited GP
- GP granted visa after ministerial intervention
- No change in PBS drug deferral plan
- Drug company reveals extent of payments to doctors
- Govt sticks to deferred listings decision
- Govt-industry summit to look at PBS listing issues
- Govt consent form not enough to protect GPs in negligence suits
- GPs unite to take on Medicare watchdog
- More support for retired doctors
- Medical board chief defends AHPRA registration bungles
- Surgeon loses appeal against manslaughter
- Naturopath code wins doctor support
- Medical board chief defends AHPRA registration bungles
- Legality of English test is in doubt
- Nominations open for 2011 GPET awards
- PSR rejects report release criticisms
- ACT nurse-led walk-in clinic under fire for cost
- NSW player goes the distance
- Renewed efforts to fight for retired doctors’ rights
- E-record push will fail without incentives
- Med student border ban under review
- Patient comments an e-record risk
- Medical educators could be lost under AHPRA retirement rules
- PSR to release report despite criticism
- Former AMA president elected World Medical Association chair
- UMAT not a reliable predictor of uni success: study
- Trainees urged to admit mistakes
- Health and environment link vital in planning urban centres
- Govt bypasses primary care for rollout of e-health record sites
- Qld flood GP queries dam management
- New retired GP proposal as AMA faces fire
- Qld flood GP queries dam management
- Trainees urged to admit mistakes
- AHPRA faces Senate inquiry
- E-health systems growing necessity
- Registrar places filled: Govt promises more
- AMA withdraws from fight for retired doctors
- Dentists now under Medicare scrutiny as crackdown continues
- All GP registrar places now filled
- PSR lawsuit raised as cases dropped
- Medicare sets sights on GPs over dental scheme
- Fears GPs may skip accreditation due to time and payment issues
- Anti-nuclear doctor fears ongoing implications of Japanese crisis
- Basic science learning not forgotten over the years
- Colleague reports ‘ridiculous’
- Govt budget should focus on life-saving medicine: AMA
- Qld GP begins rebuild after floods
- Mental health findings prompt call for Govt action
- RACP: a primary care election focus
- Doctors’ group pledges help for IMGs
- Narcotics crackdown: 50 doctors targeted