Aged Care recommendations a worry for GPs

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By the AGPA Web Team

Among the many sweeping recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aged Care are a couple of specific recommendations that directly affect GPs and medical practices that could be inconvenient and costly at best and harmful at worse.

The Federal Government would do well to consult more widely before adopting them.

The recommendations relate to a new model for the way that medical practices are paid and limiting prescribing capacity of GPs to people in aged care.

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Primary care: AGPA rep’s latest

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Update from Dr Maria Boulton, AGPA Representative, Primary Care Implementation Group (PCIG) for Week Ending 5 march 2021

Primary Health Care COVID-19 Response Teleconference 3 March 2021.

[Web Team’s Key point: Roll-out to be done in a large number of places with smaller numbers of doses in each rather than a smaller number of places with large numbers of doses as recommended by AGPA in January (https://australiangpalliance.com.au/2021/01/30/inadequate-government-funding-will-slow-delivery-of-covid-19-vaccinations/) because this mirrors the nature of primary care in Australia.]

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Research into telehealth and chronic disease

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A team of 4th year medical students from the University of Newcastle and University of New England are seeking help from Australian GPs in conducting research about telehealth and chronic disease management (CDM).

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