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Moves by the federal government to incentivise bulk billing are proving successful, with more general practitioners offering the option to rural patients.

Moves by the federal government to incentivise bulk billing are proving successful, with more general practitioners offering the option to rural patients.

Introduction: The distribution of health care workers differs greatly across Australia, which is likely to impact health delivery. Objective: To examine demographic and workplace setting factors of doctors, nurses and midwives, and allied health professionals across Modified Monash Model (MMM) regions and identify factors associated with shortfalls in the health care workforce. Design: Descriptive cross-sectional analysis. The study included all health professionals who were registered with the ...

Moves by the federal government to incentivise bulk billing are proving successful, with more general practitioners offering the option to rural patients.

A federal review will examine the policies encouraging health workers into rural communities.

A federal review will examine the policies encouraging health workers into rural communities.

Introduction: Addressing the imbalance of the health workforce between metropolitan and rural areas requires a clear understanding of trends in choices of work location of health care staff. Objective: Here, we provide an automated and highly reproducible protocol to examine the location of health care workers over multiple years using medical graduates as a case study. Design: Data linkage cohort study. The study cohort examined was University of Wollongong Medical graduates from 2010 to 2021 w...

More nurses and allied health workers will be trained in WA’s South West and Goldfields regions as part of a $36 million push from the Morrison Government to boost local health workforces through new University Departments of Rural Health (UDRH). Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the new additions would encourage more graduating health professionals to practice in the South

This morning, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia National President, Professor Trent Twomey, and Queensland Branch President, Chris Owen provided

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) is calling on Federal Government to equally remunerate pharmacists for their involvement in the national