Medical Republic

About 100 Health Service Union members on the Single Digital Patient Record Implementation Authority staff met in a stop-work meeting this morning to air grievances against the organisation’s senior management as the SDPR rollout stutters on.

From July 1, new laws will require practices to collect and hold onto proof that their patients have consented to be bulk billed – but there are still unanswered questions about what happens when a patient is too ill to consent.

“We like the idea of introducing electronic systems, but the way that this change looks like it’s been set up, it’s going to create a lot ...

Close to 40% of the clinics signed up to the Bulk Billing Practice Incentive Payment (BB PIP) program were formerly mixed billers, a Department of Health, Disability and Ageing spokesperson told delegates at the RACGP Practice Owners Conference on Saturday.

New figures from the DoHDA also reveal that the national GP bulk billing rate has officially tipped 80% (depen...

One of the key recommendations from the Senate Inquiry into Menopause and Perimenopause was to create an awareness campaign about menopause.

After 20 months, the federal government...

For the next four and a half years, politicians and GPs can expect the RACGP’s focus to be on increasing investment in primary care first and foremost, followed by work to strengthen regulation against certain other models of care.

The college’s second-ever advocacy plan was unveiled at the RACGP Practice Owners Conference in Sydney on Sunday and outlines its priori...