About the changes to Chronic disease management plans in November 2024. From 1 November 2024, MBS items will be changing to: Impact on GPs: GPs will lose the opportunity to bill GPMP as a stand-alone service. If there is no team to engage, there will be no Care Plan. Currently, Read more…
Can GPs use AI ChatGPT for clinical notes? AI in Clinical Notes: Bridging Innovation with Privacy, Consent and Real-World Applications. As Australian general practitioners (GPs) embrace artificial intelligence (AI), tools like ChatGPT are becoming pivotal in transforming patient consultations into comprehensive clinical notes. This leap in healthcare technology streamlines documentation, Read more…
Plan: Do: Study: Act: References: Red Book, Communicable diseases, Sexually transmissible infections. RACGP, https://www.racgp.org.au/clinical-resources/clinical-guidelines/key-racgp-guidelines/view-all-racgp-guidelines/guidelines-for-preventive-activities-in-general-pr/communicable-diseases/sexually-transmissible-infections Last accessed: 27.10.23. Share Tweet Share Share Follow
Rogers v Whitaker [1992] HCA 58 was a landmark Australian law case involving a medical negligence claim. The case centred around a woman named Mrs Whitaker, who had sought treatment for her eye condition from Dr Rogers. Mrs Whitaker had pre-existing blindness in one eye and consulted Dr Rogers regarding Read more…
RACGP has updated STI / STD testing guidelines. There is also a decision-making tool. This decision-making tool helps to identify what and when needs to be tested. In my view, following these guidelines not only improves clinical care but also offers some level of protection in case of Medicare audits. Read more…
Exemption from the COVID-19 test procedure is rather complicated. Some people keep testing positive to COVID-19 long after full recovery from the illness. The implications of this are that they cannot travel, cannot attend study or work where regular negative COVID-19 test results are required. There is a certificate that Read more…
Updated 14.12.2021 New reading: Patient is eligible for a COVID-19 booster dose if: 18 years and older, and have had the second dose of COVID-19 vaccination at least 5 months ago. (instead of 6 months ago) Published 02.12.2021 Adopted from COVID-19 booster vaccine advice, the Australian Department of Health. COVID-19 Read more…
Home Medication Review or Domiciliary Medication Management Review (DMMR) is one of the least used items by GPs. There are reasons for that. Firstly, DMMR is perceived as a cumbersome labour-intensive item. Secondly, there are some misconceptions about eligibility for DMMR. In fact, DMMR (HMR) is a very useful and Read more…
To serve or not to serve? There is the question – Whether ‘tis nobler to serve unvaccinated or show them to the door to claim the need of the Divine Protection? Now seriously. Healthcare businesses in Victoria face a legal, moral and financial dilemma of providing services to people unvaccinated Read more…
Clinical resources for General Practitioners. 10 min video presentation Two reasons to use clinical guidelines on a daily basis. Share Tweet Share Share Follow