The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) has welcomed the changes to simplify the Medical Benefits Schedule (MBS) that the Federal Government will introduce in May next year. However, the RDAA has warned the government that whilst welcome the changes will do little to attract doctors to rural practice. The Association continues to call on [...]

The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) is calling on the Australian Medical Association (AMA) Western Australian Branch to reverse its misguided approach of paying spotters fees for recruitment of overseas doctors.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement on legislation that would permanently reform the broken Medicare physician payment system. The Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act, which passed by a vote of 243 to 183, repeals a 21 percent fee reduction scheduled for January 2010, and replaces the physician payment formula with a more stable [...]

The NHS Alliance has welcomed the findings of the 2009 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey published today.
The report highlights the importance of primary care in producing better outcomes for patients at lower costs.

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) provided comments yesterday to the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society regarding its draft report on Gene Patenting and Licensing and Their Impact on Patient Access to Genetic Tests. The report makes several recommendations that would restrict the ability to obtain or undermine the enforceability of patents and [...]