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The weekly newsletter of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. If you would like to submit a piece for consideration for Friday Facts please fill in the form at www.racgp.org.au/fridayfacts/submissions. |
05/03/2010
Fridayfacts 5 March 2010
Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has this week presented the Government's National Health and Hospital Network for Australia's Future report, which he described as 'the most significant reforms to health and hospitals since the introduction of Medicare'.
26/02/2010Fridayfacts 26 February 2010
General practice has been recommended as a medical specialty by the Medical Board of Australia, after years of advocacy by members of our college. This is exciting news for the future of our profession and evidence of the increasing status of general practice.
19/02/2010Fridayfacts 19 February 2010
It is with great pleasure that the RACGP announces the addition of a new faculty, the RACGP National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health.
12/02/2010Fridayfacts 12 February 2010
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners welcomes the government’s latest step in implementing the e-health agenda, with the Minister for Health and Ageing, The Hon Nicola Roxon MP, presenting the Healthcare Identifiers Bill, 2010 to Parliament earlier this week. The proposed national Healthcare Identifiers Service aims to implement and maintain a national system for uniquely identifying health care providers and individuals and is planned to be available from July 2010. Medicare Australia will be the initial operator of the Healthcare Identifiers Service.
05/02/2010Fridayfacts 5 February 2010
The RACGP is pleased that the Senate Inquiry has endorsed the Health Legislation Amendment (Midwives and Nurse Practitioners) Bill, 2009, and the two related Bills that support the government’s amendments to the Bill, to support collaboration.
29/01/2010Fridayfacts 29 January 2010
Our college has now over 16 482 Australian GP members, of which 5658 are also members of our National Rural Faculty. We are proud that so many Australian GPs choose to join our college. This is the highest number in our 52 year history, 575 above last year’s previous record number and a significant milestone.
22/01/2010Fridayfacts 22 January 2010
Welcome to the first edition of Fridayfacts in 2010. We hope that many of you managed to have some time away from work over the holiday period. 2010 will be a year full of challenges for Australian general practice and the college. We are looking forward to working with you all and will continue to advocate for improved recognition and reward of general practice in 2010.
18/12/2009Fridayfacts 18 December 2009
For some time now, the RACGP has been advocating reforms to the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) to simplify and streamline the Medicare system and encourage preventive care. Australian GPs need an MBS that supports high quality general practice care.
11/12/2009Fridayfacts 11 December 2009
The General Practice Data Governance Council met in Canberra this week and was briefed about the proposed new Privacy legislation and what impacts this will have on general practice. One component of this discussion related to the draft Healthcare Identifiers Bill enabling unique healthcare identifiers for Australians.
04/12/2009Fridayfacts 4 December 2009
According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reports, ‘General practice activity in Australia 2008–09’ and ‘10 year data tables’, released this week, the complexity of work being delivered by Australian GPs has dramatically increased in the past 10 years.
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