AMA Urges Medical Board To Recognise Thousands Of Vocationally Registered GPs As ‘Specialist GPs’, Australia (Medical News Today)
Monday, February 22nd, 2010The AMA is urging the recently established Medical Board of Australia to ensure that the new national registration arrangements for doctors do not discriminate against 11,000 vocationally registered general practitioners. The Board is currently finalising the criteria that will determine which GPs will be included on its specialist register. The AMA has welcomed the decision by the Board to …
Chief Medical Officer Mobilises GPs To Support Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza Vaccinations (Medical News Today)
Monday, February 8th, 2010Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jim Bishop, is calling on GPs to promote vaccination against the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza to their patients before the flu season begins in Australia . Professor Bishop has enlisted the support of his GP Roundtable, which includes representatives of the AMA, RACGP and the GP Network and he is writing to all GPs in Australia to ask them to …
That Sprint HTC Hero Just Got Sweeter
Friday, September 11th, 2009As if Sprint customers weren’t already happy enough to have an Android headed their way with the Sprint HTC Hero, today Sprint just announced a service plan that they teased as “revolutionary”. I might not go that far myself… but it kicks butt indeed. The bottom line: your “Everything Plan” just got a little more of Everything. For $69.99 you’ll get unlimited calls to ANY carrier along with unlimited data, SMS, MMS, GPS nav, Sprint TV, etc… it’s called “Any Mobile, Anytime” (AMA). If you’ve cu
Well now, there’s a surprise
Thursday, August 13th, 2009The AMA is opposed to a pharmacy chain’s plan to provide walk-in clinics staffed by nurse practitioners . How much of this objection is being fueled by the fairly obvious prediction that a lot of people off sick from work would rather spend the minimum of time outside a comfy bed and would be willing to pay out of their own pocket to be quickly seen by a nurse practitioner to get that employer-required medical certificate rather than wait for hours to see a GP? I can see how cutting into tha
Well now, there’s a surprise
Thursday, August 13th, 2009The AMA is opposed to a pharmacy chain’s plan to provide walk-in clinics staffed by nurse practitioners . How much of this objection is being fueled by the fairly obvious prediction that a lot of people off sick from work would rather spend the minimum of time outside a comfy bed and would be willing to pay out of their own pocket to be quickly seen by a nurse practitioner rather than wait for hours to see a GP? I can see how cutting into that particular income stream would be irksome, but b
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