public health system

Pharmacy prescribing could be expanded across the country after trials in NSW, Victoria and Queensland that are designed to ease pressure on GP visits and ultimately emergency presentations by patients who can’t find a GP.It would mean in…

Pharmacists will be allowed to charge $20 to prescribe some drugs including the contraceptive pill and deliver travel vaccinations and under a push by Victoria and NSW to slash waiting times to see a GP.NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet and…

Australians could skip the GP and go straight to the pharmacy to treat mild conditions if large-scale Medicare and health reforms are achieved. On Friday, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet will petition the national cabinet for changes which…

NSW residents could get access to more bulk billing GPs after Dominic Perrottet announced he will be joining forces with the Victorian Premier to overhaul the Medicare system.The proposed reform would provide greater access to bulk-billing…

Queensland’s active number of Covid-19 cases has jumped by 61 per cent, with the chief health officer warning waves of the virus could continue “for years”.The state raised its alert level to amber on Thursday as Premier Annastacia…