Friday Fax (weekly newsletter)
RACGP Friday Fax
The weekly newsletter of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
15/08/2008
College fax 15 August 2008
Associate Members will be interested to know that they may be eligible to vote at the RACGP Annual General Meeting being held at this year's 51st Annual Scientific Convention / Wonca Asia-Pacific Regional Conference in Melbourne.
08/08/2008College fax 8 August 2008
As an Associate Member you may be eligible to vote at the annual general meeting, but only if you upgrade your membership before 31 August 2008.
01/08/2008College fax 1 August 2008
This week the Australian Government announced reforms to the policy of mandatory detention for asylum seekers. I welcome some of these changes. The most important reform announced by Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Senator Chris Evans is the exclusion of children from detention.
25/07/2008College fax 25 July 2008
The first round of 2008 RACGP Fellowship exams were held on 12 April and 18 May. I want to congratulate all the successful candidates. I look forward to the fantastic contribution you will make to the future of our profession.
17/07/2008College fax 17 July 2008
On Tuesday I took part in the first face to face meeting of the National Primary Health Care Strategy External Reference Group in Melbourne.
11/07/2008College fax 11 July 2008
Members will be interested to know that the Australian Government has announced that the National Preventative Health Taskforce will be releasing a discussion paper in September on the Australian Government's blueprint for refocusing the health system on prevention.
04/07/2008College fax 4 July 2008
The RACGP is calling on interested members to help participate in the development of an integrative medicine (IM) subfaculty, a proposed subfaculty of the proposed specific interest faculty of the RACGP.
27/06/2008College fax 27 June 2008
In considering its reforms to the health system and ways to tackle the health workforce crisis, we are urging the Australian Government to put patients first. Recent data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows the general practice workforce shrank by 9 percent between 1997 and 2005; many patients simply can't get in to see a doctor.
20/06/2008College fax 20 June 2008
This week, together with the Australian Medical Association, Rural Doctors Association of Australia and the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine, the RACGP signed a joint statement on primary health care reform.
13/06/2008College fax 13 June 2008
Congratulations to the following general practitioners whose outstanding contribution to our community has been recognised in this week's Queen's Birthday Honours.
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