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President's Blog
Two things have really pushed my buttons in the past week. If you've been keeping up to date with the news, you can probably guess what they are.
The first is the deal between the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and Blackmores to promote complementary medicines with prescription drugs.
The Guild’s withdrawal of the deal and its endorsement of the Blackmores Companion range of complementary medicines is a win for patients, a win for the independence of clinical pharmacists, and a win for the doctor-clinical pharmacist relationship.
The second button-pusher has been the obvious absence of health at this week's Tax Forum in Canberra.
To find out what your AMA has been doing in these areas, click here.
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Dr Hambleton, ABC News Radio Sydney, 16 January 2012
13 January 2012 - 12:00pmAMA in the News
E-health key trial halted by specifications glitch, The Australian, 24/01/11, www.theaustralian.com.au
Australian Medical Association president Steve Hambleton -- whose Brisbane clinic is in one of the affected sites -- said the issue would cause further disruption for practices.
AMA rebuts Medicare rort claim among doctors, Herald Sun, 16/01/12, www.heraldsun.com.au
Doctors are not rorting Medicare through over-servicing patients, says association president Dr Steve Hambleton, but adds that the "few" people misusing the system should be weeded out.
Call for tighter controls on medical clinics , The Australian, 17/01/12, www.theaustralian.com.au
Australian Medical Association president and Brisbane GP Steve Hambleton said he worked in a corporate-owned practice, owned by a different company, that offered X-rays and "I can say there has never been any interference with my clinical sovereignty".
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