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Dec 11, 2024 | 
johnmenadue.com | Stephen Duckett
The national report on Australia’s COVID response is long, at 877 pages (depending upon the format), with 4,647 footnotes. But long is not synonymous with comprehensive, and there are significant gaps in the report’s analysis and conclusions. Some of these problems are not of the panel’s making, I suspect, but others, related both to methodology and findings, are.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
nursingreview.com.au | Stephen Duckett
Home | Top Stories | Primary care involves more than GPs. A new review shows how patients can better access care in Top Stories, Workforce Stephen Duckett, The University of Melbourne Please login below to view content or subscribe now. Username or Email: Password: Remember Me...
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
agedcareinsite.com.au | Stephen Duckett
Stephen Duckett, The University of MelbourneAustralians today are more likely than previous generations to live with complex and chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and depression. This means they’re more likely to need health care from a variety of different providers, such as nurses, podiatrists, psychologists and physiotherapists, as well as GPs. This is known as “multidisciplinary care”.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
dailybulletin.com.au | Stephen Duckett
Australians today are more likely than previous generations to live with complex and chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and depression. This means they’re more likely to need health care from a variety of different providers, such as nurses, podiatrists, psychologists and physiotherapists, as well as GPs. This is known as “multidisciplinary care”. It works best when the skills of all these professions are available to the patient in a co-ordinated way.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
msn.com | Stephen Duckett
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Stephen Duckett
Australians today are more likely than previous generations to live with complex and chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and depression. This means they're more likely to need health care from a variety of different providers, such as nurses, podiatrists, psychologists and physiotherapists, as well as GPs. This is known as "multidisciplinary care." It works best when the skills of all these professions are available to the patient in a coordinated way.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Stephen Duckett
Australians today are more likely than previous generations to live with complex and chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and depression. This means they’re more likely to need health care from a variety of different providers, such as nurses, podiatrists, psychologists and physiotherapists, as well as GPs. This is known as “multidisciplinary care”. It works best when the skills of all these professions are available to the patient in a co-ordinated way.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
themandarin.com.au | Jacob Shteyman |Andrew Brown |Stephen Duckett
Australia cannot count on using the same measures for COVID-19 when the next pandemic hits because people have lost trust in authority, an inquiry into the nation’s crisis response has found. Quickly establishing a national Centre for Disease Control (CDC) is a priority recommendation of a 670-page report released on Tuesday, intended to prepare Australia for future pandemics. Australia fared better than other countries when considering its mortality rate and economic recovery, the review found.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
nursingreview.com.au | Stephen Duckett
Home | Top Stories | We’re only using a fraction of health workers’ skills.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Stephen Duckett |Fiona McDonald
Preliminary bulk billing data released this week shows a 2.1% rise in bulk billing up to March. This comes after the government for GPs to bulk bill concession-card holders and children under 16 for most consultations. The new data confirms the December-quarter data, which shows the increased bulk billing incentive, announced in the 2023 budget, arrested the decline in bulk billing caused by the almost decade-long freeze in rebates under the previous government.
