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Experts divided on Local interaction
UNDULY bureaucratic Medicare Locals could jeopardise the level of involvement GPs currently have with their divisions, a health systems expert has argued. Philip Davies, professor of health systems and policy at the University of Queensland school of population health, says that under the proposed Medicare Locals, GP engagement “will inevitably be reduced”. “We are moving towards less GP-led autonomy and more into Medicare Locals being part of a sort of Government health system,” he said. Professor Davies, also the former deputy secretary to the Federal Health Department, noted such trends had occurred in New Zealand and ...