AMA Council of General Practice tackles key GP issues

• the AMA’s submission to the MBS Review of after hours services;
• the need to better fund the proposed Quality PIP incentive;
• strategies for tackling obesity;
• the implementation of health care homes;
• finalising aged care priorities;
• minimum standards for communication between health services and GPs and other treating doctors; and
• proposed changes to GP referrals for MRI of knees.

Presentations from AGPAL and the Department of Veterans Affairs were also well received by the Council.