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One of the nation’s peak doctors’ bodies has called on other states and territories to introduce illicit pill testing to “save lives” after Queensland unveiled plans for a trial.
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Nurses, paramedics and allied health professionals will soon be included in the delivery of primary care as Medicare faces the biggest overhaul in its 40-year history.
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Health Minister Yvette D’Ath has launched a blistering assessment of an ABC News report highlighting her links to a prominent Redcliffe business owner, perhaps not the first time she has been potentially compromised by people of influence and power.
The rural health workforce could be bolstered if medical schools accepted more students from the bush and offered more training and placements in country settings, a new study suggests.
A professional turf war has broken out between the bodies representing doctors and pharmacists over the right of pharmacists to prescribe drugs for medical conditions.
A Queensland doctor has been suspended amid a clinical probe of Mackay Hospital following complaints from women about complications from caesareans and suggestions of patient harm.
Where possible, patients should be treated out of hospital, where it is cheaper, safer and more convenient. Lately, however, some doctors have been sending them back in, without good reason.
