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Melbourne doctor Mukesh Haikerwal has threatened to itemise payroll tax on medical bills unless the Andrews government follows NSW’s lead and grants a tax amnesty.

GPs threaten to shame premier on medical bills in payroll tax dispute

Doctors say they are preparing to name and shame Premier Daniel Andrews and other Labor MPs as part of their campaign against expanded payroll tax.

  • Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook

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Liberal leader Matthew Guy has pledged a new hospital for Werribee.

‘I don’t care who builds it’: Cautious welcome in the west for Guy’s hospital plan

The Victorian opposition has promised to build a 275-bed Royal Children’s Hospital campus in Werribee, while the Andrews government has confirmed two new GP clinics for children.

  • Lachlan Abbott, Rachel Eddie and Melissa Cunningham
A healthcare worker fills a syringe with the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine

Sporting stadiums and car parks could become mass vaccination hubs

Leading medical groups are weighing up ideas to vaccinate millions of Australians by the middle of the year.

  • Aisha Dow
Acting Premier Jacinta Allan provides a health update.

The unpopular advice that led to the closure of the NSW border

The advice was going to be unpopular but it was crystal clear: in the absence of widespread coronavirus restrictions in NSW, a border closure was the only option.

  • Henrietta Cook
Due to high demand, the MSAC drive through test site for COVID-19 was temporarily closed on Sunday.

Urgent call for nurses to fill shifts at swamped testing sites

Testing clinics have been overwhelmed by 60,000 returning travellers, prompting calls for better contingency planning.

  • Aisha Dow and Paul Sakkal
Dr Sarah Lewis says she is treating patients every week who are refusing to do the right thing.

'It's a major problem': Doctors raise concerns about COVID test refusers

One patient recently turned down testing despite her husband testing positive to the virus, while another test refuser arrived at a medical clinic and was coughing up phlegm, feverish and breathless.

  • Henrietta Cook
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Doctors say potentially infectious COVID-19 patients are being cleared to leave isolation while others with no symptoms languish at home.

Potentially infectious Victorians cleared to leave isolation

GPs are urging the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services to consult with them before coronavirus patients are released from isolation and into the community.

  • Henrietta Cook
Vapers may struggle to get a prescription for liquid nicotine even if the TGA approves it.

'They get young people into smoking': Doctors hesitant to prescribe vaping

Vapers encouraged by the federal drug regulator's push to allow liquid nicotine to be sold through pharmacies may struggle to get a prescription from doctors.

  • Dana McCauley
Patients are being given conflicting advice on whether they need to self isolate after a COVID-19 test.

Patients given conflicting advice on when to self-isolate

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has ordered his department to remind GPs and state-employed testing doctors of the correct advice on when patients must self-isolate.

  • Dana McCauley
Sam Mostyn, left, and Bill Bowtell on Q+A on Monday night.

'We lessened our vigilance': Calls for politicians to step back amid pandemic

Prominent businesswoman Sam Mostyn urged the government to let a single impartial expert lead the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Nick Bonyhady

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