Fears for defence health care under new regime
THE controversial move to assign defence force health care to a private provider has led to specialist shortages in key military cities, says the AMA.
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Graduate boom could see 600 miss out on AGPT training
UP TO 600 aspiring GPs are set to miss out on AGPT training places next year after a boom in applications, prompting doctors' groups to demand urgent action be taken to increase training capacity.
Fight for Senior Active category still going strong
SENIOR doctors have continued their campaign to retain a Senior Active registration category, staging a meeting in Sydney recently to protest the removal of 1800 doctors from Occasional Practice registration next year.
Cheaper fees for senior GPs could penalise others
THE Medical Board of Australia (MBA) has warned that any proposal offering cheaper registration for senior doctors could raise fees for all other medical practitioners. An MBA spokeswoman said a reduction in fees for senior doctors, as outlined in a proposal from the Australian Doctors’ Fund (ADF) for a new Senior Active registration category, would have “implications for the fees paid by the rest of the profession”. The confirmation comes as health ministers from WA and Tasmania last week added qualified support for an overhaul of registration standards. WA Health Minister Dr Kim Hames said in ...
Cheap fees for senior docs could mean hike for the rest
THE Medical Board of Australia (MBA) has warned that any proposal offering cheaper registration for senior doctors could raise fees for all other medical practitioners. An MBA spokeswoman said a reduction in fees for senior doctors, as outlined in a proposal from the Australian Doctors’ Fund (ADF) for a new Senior Active registration category, would have “implications for the fees paid by the rest of the profession”. The confirmation comes as more than 150 doctors voted almost unanimously in favour of the creation of a new optional category of registration for doctors older ...
‘Senior Active’ doctor registration gathers support
A PROPOSAL for the creation of a new Senior Active registration category for doctors winding down their clinical practice is gathering pace, with two specialist bodies now officially endorsing the measure. The Australasian Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ASCTS) and the Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery have both endorsed the proposal, created by the Australian Doctors Fund (ADF) in response to restrictions in national laws that took effect last year. The new laws effectively removed the long-held rights of doctors to continue dispensing repeat prescriptions and making referrals after they retired from clinical ...
Benefit of statins confirmed for CVD prevention in women
NEW evidence has emerged to show that statins are as effective for primary prevention of cardiovascular events in women as in men. A re-analysis of the US JUPITER trial, including 6801 women aged 60 years and older with raised CRP and low LDL-C, has found 20 mg per day of rosuvastatin (Crestor) led to similar relative risk reductions in CVD rates in asymptomatic women (by 46%) and men (by 42 per cent). When the results were synthesised with a meta-analysis of five trials for statin use in 20,147 women for primary prevention, statin therapy showed a one-third ...