An independent review found there was widespread confusion among patients about the qualifications of podiatric surgeons,who are not medical doctors.
Hundreds of psychiatrists have written to Health Minister Mark Butler about severe workforce shortages that are affecting patient care.
The agreement resolves a year-long spat that led to 200 pharmacy owners storming out of question time yelling obscenities.
Health Minister Mark Butler has emphasised the annual increase – which comes into effect on April 1 – is lower than the annual rise in wages.
Perhaps it’s time for the PM to take the initiative and continue to raise the tone of the national conversation.
Marijuana remained Australia’s most popular drug,with about 2.5 million users,while about one million people took the stimulant drug cocaine.
Coalition MPs are warning about the “skyrocketing” sale of vapes to children,and asking if it would be better to regulate and tax the sale,like New Zealand.
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.
In several suburban Melbourne electorates,more than 20 per cent of clinics said they stopped bulk-billing all patients during last year.
New data published by the federal government shows there has been a 2.1 percentage point increase in the national GP bulk-billing rate since November.
The gap fees for hip and knee replacements have risen 35 per cent in the past five years,while the out-of pocket cost of other procedures has surged 300 per cent.