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Securing Medicare Provider Numbers could boost pharmacists’ remuneration, advocate Pardeep Singh believes, but others in the profession warn of hidden costs  Calls for pharmacists to be given Medicare Provider Numbers …

Senator warns GPs may put profits before patients  Budgetary measures aimed at curbing out-of-pocket healthcare costs, including 60-day dispensing, are unlikely to reduce patients’ spending at their GP, Senator Hollie …

Community pharmacies will be funded to administer vaccines through the National Immunisation Program (NIP) from 1 January 2024  Eligible patients who elect to receive NIP vaccines through their local community …

Medicare reform must not come at the expense of improving other areas of Australia’s health system, including the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), Trent Zimmerman, warns.   Writing in The Guardian former …

State and territory governments are being urged to adopt a harmonised approach to the expansion of pharmacists’ scope of practice.   With several premiers voicing their support for pharmacists to …

Prime Minister and Health Minister in morning media blitz to outline biggest overhaul of system since inception A “blended” funding system which would allow nurses, pharmacists and other allied health …

Guild welcomes LNP’s new Health Minister nominee amidst criticism of previous Medicare comments Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that Senator Anne Ruston would be the Health Minister in a …

Her parents went into debt to go into business with her, then bought property to deter Chemist Warehouse… and her pharmacy thrived. But this pharmacist decided to defraud Medicare Reporter …

Record bulk billing rates and massive telehealth take-up a sign of a successful COVID strategy: Minister says Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has highlighted new data showing record GP bulk …

Health stakeholders have paid tribute to Bob Hawke, with the Guild highlighting his key role in universal health care for Australians On Thursday, the former Prime Minister’s wife, Blanche d’Alpuget, …

A convicted healthcare practitioner cannot reapply for registration for six years, after making 14,565 fraudulent Medicare claims totalling over $850,000 A registered medical practitioner has been found to have engaged …

A new report on bulk billing has seen the Health Minister claim record rates, while Labor says the cost of health care is spiralling out of control The report, from …