Portrait of a bush crisis
Dr Joseph Romeo has money to build a super clinic but no-one to staff it. Andrew Bracey paints a picture of a town fighting for its medical survival.
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Coalition in govt would review ML spending
A COALITION government would do a broad review of Medicare Locals, including how they spent Commonwealth dollars and how they determined areas of service deficiency, shadow health minister Peter Dutton said last week.
Hospital sorry for billing dead patient
THE CEO of a hospital that sent a woman a bill for her husband’s hospital treatment 521 days after his death – despite the bill having already been paid – personally called her last night to apologise for the error.
More GPs are seeking help for stress, RACGP says
THE number of stressed GPs turning to help and counselling support services has risen in a year plagued by natural disasters and the global financial crisis. According to RACGP president Dr Chris Mitchell, anecdotal evidence suggested the number of doctors accessing the college’s GP Support Program had increased noticeably in recent months. “It has been a bugger of a year – there are clearly the financial issues that have been impacting general practice, but also some major disasters, including floods and fires,” Dr Mitchell said. “Those issues make it very hard for us.” The service, ...
Stress snapshot
How are GPs coping? Helen Signy finds out. WINTER 2009: surgeries are flooded with patients thinking they have swine flu, the global financial crisis is making practice management more challenging, and the Government’s plans for primary care are leaving GPs feeling uncertain and undervalued. If you’re feeling more stressed than ever, you’re not alone. The MO Stress Test , an exclusive Medical Observer survey of nearly 500 GPs conducted by Julie Dang & Associates, found more than 50% reported worrying stress levels, with 4% saying their stress was unmanageable. And things ...
A call to arms in the war against red tape
AUSTRALIAN GPs are drowning in bureaucratic red tape, resulting in countless hours of extra unpaid paperwork and hundreds of patients missing out on care every day. Doctors around the country are constantly looking for ways to improve administration processes and increase efficiencies to free up time to spend with their patients – but, despite these efforts, the various layers of government continue to dump form after form on GPs. Six years ago, the Productivity Commission deemed the cost of regulatory burden on general practice to be more than $13,000 per GP, per year. Since then we have seen some acknowledgement of the problem, but very ...