The AMA’s latest position statement on enhancing the role of practice nurse in GP-led team-based care has detailed where the advocacy body looks to reform collaborative care.

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Last month, federal MP Ed Husic took the opportunity to tell federal parliament about Western Sydney GP Dr Teng-Kiok Kek, who died in January this year.

“Like many devoted GPs in our community, Dr Kek could have easily earned far more in other parts of Sydney, but he was determined to remain in Mount Druitt serving the community that needed him the most and the peop...

Western Australia was the first state to act on expanding GP ADHD prescribing scope, and according to new data it is also host to 13 of the country’s 20 highest ADHD prescription-dispensing neighbourhoods.

As tempting as it may be to draw a connection between GP prescribing being greenlit and WA having the highest levels of ADHD prescriptions per capita, however, th...

“If this had been an animal found in my care, I’d have been charged.”

As Angie List watched her mother die a prolonged, distressing death from advanced dementia, it was this thought that stayed with her — one she says exposes a gap in Australia’s end-of-life care system.

“Why are we allowing humans to get in that condition?” she asked.

Ms List ha...

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