Holly Payne
Journalist at The Medical Republic
Living in Sydney, journalisting for @medicalrepublic, accumulating pictures of frogs | she/her | email me: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
medicalrepublic.com.au | Holly Payne
Health minister Mark Butler has released modelling purportedly showing that GPs who universally bulk bill will make more money than their mixed-billing colleagues. New modelling released by the Department of Health and Aged Care predicts that GPs working at a universal bulk-billing practice will make around $5000 more in annual earnings than their mixed-billing candidates.
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1 week ago |
medicalrepublic.com.au | Holly Payne
Under the stewardship of a new CEO, the peak body will no longer focus solely on general practice supervisors. General Practice Supervision Australia has announced plans to expand beyond general practice to meet “emerging needs across the wider healthcare environment”. GPSA chair Dr Srishti Dutta told The Medical Republic that the intention behind the changes was to ensure that the peak could support a range of supervisors outside of the traditional AGPT focus.
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1 week ago |
medicalrepublic.com.au | Holly Payne
When it comes to fresh food, rural Australians miss out on the fruits of their labour – literally. One of the great ironies in Australian nutrition is that people living in the regions which produce the country’s fresh food also find it harder to access that food in local stores. It’s time for the government to step in on food insecurity for rural and remote communities, the Rural Doctors’ Association of Australia argues.
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1 week ago |
medicalrepublic.com.au | Holly Payne
In a major shake-up, nurse-led clinics can no longer purchase stock of Botox or fillers on behalf of doctors or nurse practitioners who do not physically work there. Hundreds of nurse-led cosmetic clinics in Queensland have now been placed in a potentially unviable situation, after the state health department clarified its interpretation of the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019.
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1 week ago |
medicalrepublic.com.au | Holly Payne
The latest pre-election promise would see western herbal medicine and naturopathy re-included in private health insurance rebate-eligible extras cover. Labor’s latest healthcare pledge could indirectly fund unproven treatments by allowing private health insurers to cover alternative treatments like naturopathy again.
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