GPs
Funding cut leading to ‘totally preventable’ strokes, heart attacks, GPs say
GPs say vulnerable people are being priced out of important heart health checks. A departmental advisory committee is reviewing the impact of the decision.
- by Mary Ward
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This Sydney GP inherited $24 million from a patient. Now, he’s been reprimanded
Dr Peter Alexakis is allowed to continue practising under restrictions after a tribunal found him guilty of professional misconduct.
- by Angus Thomson
Minister vows to assess bulk-billing as Joondalup Hospital probe begins
The health department will join a review of hospital services, and what people pay for GPs in Perth’s north will be scrutinised, after the death of toddler Sandipan Dhar.
- by Jesinta Burton
Why you’ll have to wait for the government’s new mental health initiative
Australians will be able access a free digital mental health service whenever they need help under a federal response to demand for better mental health support.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
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Health
‘Run off your feet’: Why medical students such as Jordon are turning away from general practice
Doctors are worried there will not be enough GPs to staff dozens of new urgent care clinics amid declining interest in a career in general practice.
- by Angus Thomson
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Hospitals
The seven-day healthcare clinic that’s closed 14 per cent of the time
The GP clinic is meant to cut wait times at Northern Beaches Hospital. Instead, it’s struggling to stay open.
- by Angus Thomson
How Emily took advantage of one of the few ‘good things’ to come out of COVID
Chemotherapy and a transplant makes it hard for Emily West to go outside, but a post-pandemic explosion in telehealth has made it easier for her to get the care she needs.
- by Angus Thomson
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Healthcare
Hysterical, drama queen: How two-thirds of Australian women say they feel at the doctor
A woman who went to the GP complaining about abdominal pain during sex was told: “You’re 70 years old; of course sex is going to hurt.” Three days later, her appendix burst.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
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Medicare
Bulk-billing GP clinics disappear across many parts of Sydney
While Sydney’s most expensive gap fees were in Wentworth and Warringah, data shows, more than 75 per cent of GP clinics in nine Sydney electorates reported bulk-billing all of their patients.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
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Medicare
Bulk-billing rates plummet across Victoria as more doctors charge for services
In several suburban Melbourne electorates, more than 20 per cent of clinics said they stopped bulk-billing all patients during last year.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Landmark trial sets out to help WA students access affordable healthcare
Every WA public high school student could be provided access to a bulk-billed general practitioner on school grounds who specialises in adolescent health and wellbeing.
- by Holly Thompson
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