The Minister for Health, Sussan Ley, has released a statement saying that she will be "...undertaking wide ranging consultation on the ground with doctors and the community across the country in order to come up with sensible options to deliver appropriate Medicare reforms."
The guiding principles for the consultations have been listed as:
Much of the statement is dedicated to discussing a "...shift away from ‘six minute medicine’ so that appropriate, comprehensive care is better rewarded over patient throughput."
Read the full statement here.
The guiding principles for the consultations have been listed as:
- We must protect Medicare for the long term
- We must ensure bulk billing remains for vulnerable and concessional patients
- We must maintain high quality care and treatment for all Australians
- We must insert a price signal of a modest co-payment into the health system for those who have the capacity to pay
Much of the statement is dedicated to discussing a "...shift away from ‘six minute medicine’ so that appropriate, comprehensive care is better rewarded over patient throughput."
Read the full statement here.
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