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The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has once again urged the federal Government to make Medicare rebates for longer telehealth phone consultations a permanent fixture of the nation’s telehealth scheme so that patients ...
From 1st July 2022, Australians experiencing mental ill-health will no longer have access to some aspects of telehealth after the federal government failed to extend the measures introduced during the COVID19 pandemic. In 2020-2021, according to ...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has urged the federal Government to defer changes to Medicare claiming rules for telehealth consultations. It comes following RACGP Vice President Dr Bruce Willett writing to the ...
Australians with complex mental health issues are set to benefit from the country’s first digital and telephone service that provides ongoing mental health support designed specifically for them. Developed and delivered by leading complex mental health organisation SANE, this new service provides ...
Telehealth has become a critical way for doctors to still provide health care while minimizing in-person contact during COVID-19. But with phone or Zoom appointments, it’s harder for doctors to get important vital signs from ...
As we are considering the physical symptoms for all those affected by the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, its psychological impacts should also be considered alongside (Shigemura et al., 2020). As the COVID-19 has entirely ...
Outpatient care falls between multiple cracks in our health system: hospital/GP, public/private, and federal/state. Perhaps for these reasons, this sector has been neglected by governments and policymakers and is in desperate need of reform. Professor ...
Nursing is as much of a personal mission as it is a career path. More so than any other reason, many become interested in this line of work because they feel called to it and ...
“The uncertainty is the hardest part of it all. Most healthcare administrators are used to uncertainty given we never know what patient will walk through the door. ”, Paul Eleftheriou from Western Health. What ...
As Australia continues to monitor the COVID-19 virus challenge, precautions such as social distancing and the rules around gatherings and travel have made our annual ANZAC Day Commemoration plans change significantly in 2020. However, Director ...
A leading medical epidemiologist has today warned of the public health risks if the Australian government does not extend its COVID-19 response measures to include vulnerable groups that are currently excluded. “In crowded settings where physical ...
Telehealth is the remote delivery of healthcare using information and communication technologies. Telehealth services may include virtual consultations, remote patient monitoring, and maintenance of electronic patient health records (Mayo Clinic 2017). Tell me more…. As ...
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