The Bartone Ultimatum: "Fix My Health Record"
Access, the key to success
Two decades of community service
More than just writing a script
Press Club speech calls for better health policy decisions
News
- Queensland hospitals to ban sugary drinks and junk food
Queensland has heeded the AMA’s call to ban sugar-sweetened drinks and unhealthy snacks from its public hospitals and health care facilities.Vending...
Columns
- Shared Responsibility
BY DR RICHARD KIDD, CHAIR, AMA COUNCIL OF GENERAL PRACTICE New amendments to the Health Insurance Act 1973, strengthening the Government’s debt...
Health on the Hill
- More consultation needed on Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Basic policies, AMA tells Senate Committee
The AMA has called for more consultation on proposed private health insurance reforms, arguing that the changes will need to work with the Medicare...
Opinion
- Getting the right My Health Record
AMA PRESIDENT DR TONY BARTONE For well over a decade, successive Australian governments have worked to make an electronic health record a...
Research
- Higher rates of chronic disease as Australians live longer
Australians are generally healthy and living longer lives but, as a result, rates of chronic disease and age-related conditions are rising, the...
Lifestyle
- Timing is everything
BY DR CLIVE FRASER In my last column, I gleefully mused about what an enjoyable evening I had watching the understated spectacle of the Royal...
Features
- Access, the key to success
Family Doctor Week Victoria – Dr Jim Glaspole In the eastern part of Melbourne, not too far from the CBD, is a busy clinic that is so much...