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Australians delaying doctor visits due to rising costs

Put off by surging prices, patients are increasingly delaying or skipping important appointments with doctors, dentists and medical health professionals.

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New vaccines to target current COVID-19 variants

Federal Health Minister Mark Butler says the latest COVID-19 vaccines targeting current Omicron variants will be available to Australians next month.

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Labour pains: gap in midwifery insurance causing stress

An insurance gap is affecting midwifery care and women planning a hospital birth but wanting in-home midwifery support during the early stages of labour.

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'Tip of the iceberg': 30 tonnes of illegal vapes seized

The Australian Border Force and the TGA have seized tonnes of illegal vapes, but the health minister says more must be done.

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Patients warned many doctors won’t change approach to bulk billing despite new incentives

Boosted rebate for concession card holders and children under 16 is in effect but GPs’ peak body says other patients won’t benefit

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New national cancer plan to boost support for patients

An Australian Cancer Plan will aim to address inequality for treatment access and improve support for those with a diagnosis.

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ACT GPs unlikely to boost bulk billing despite government incentive

Incentives for GPs will triple under the change.

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Financial boost for GPs to increase bulk billing

The bulk-billing incentive for doctors will be tripled in a targeted bid to enable more children, pensioners and healthcare card holders to see a GP for free.

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100,000 patients eligible for heart drug under PBS

More patients can soon access a chronic heart failure medicine under the PBS which is set to save them hundreds of dollars per year.

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Australia’s life-saving bone marrow registry needs $13m. Why is red tape holding it up?

The money is there to increase the number of donors to help patients with leukaemia and blood cancers but governments won’t agree to release it, MPs say

The Guardian - AU

Bridget Archer says Dutton appears to be ‘weaponising’ child abuse for ‘political advantage’

The Liberal backbencher says Peter Dutton’s call for a royal commission into child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities is divisive and inconsistent

The Guardian - AU

Restrictions on gay men donating blood should be scrapped, Queensland health minister says

Exclusive: Shannon Fentiman urges federal government to ‘expedite’ individual risk assessments

The Guardian - AU

Free shingles jab coming for millions of Australians

Australians most at risk of complications from developing shingles will be eligible to receive a free vaccine against the virus.

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Ban smoking for next generation to ‘keep pace’ with UK and NZ, advocates tell Australian government

Mark Butler says those countries have ‘responded to specific tactics of Big Tobacco’ and Australia will monitor impact of the policies with ‘interest’

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‘Predatory’ shops are selling lollies and vapes to children across Australia, with no date set for import ban

Experts warn children will access vapes and begin ‘unhealthy journey to nicotine dependency’

The Conversation

View from The Hill: We can't prepare for a future pandemic without fully looking at state governments' decisions in the last one

Nearly a year ago, a privately financed inquiry, led by Peter Shergold, a former head of the prime minister’s department, finished a review of Australia’s handling of the COVID pandemic.

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Lockdowns, border closures exempt in pandemic inquiry

Experts will look into Australia's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but decisions taken by the states on lockdowns or border closures will be exempt.

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Commissioner demands release of UN report – as it happened

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Vape stores opening near Australian schools to ‘recruit new generation to nicotine’, Mark Butler says

Companies skirting regulations by labelling e-cigarettes as ‘nicotine-free’ despite them containing the drug

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Number of vapes seized in NSW increases by 500% in three years as state clamps down on ‘alarming trend’

Exclusive: More than 182,000 vapes were seized by NSW Health last year and the number of inspections more than doubled

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Jim Chalmers accuses Peter Dutton of being ‘chief propagandist’ of no campaign amid heated voice referendum debate – as it happened

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Facility accused of exorcisms and gay conversion practices applied for funding a month after Morrison announced it

Freedom of information documents show officials scrambling for information after then PM announced $4m for Esther Foundation

The Guardian - AU

Atagi recommends additional Covid vaccine booster for people over 75 – as it happened

Health minister’s office confirms government has accepted expert body’s advice

Newcastle Herald

'Safe place for disclosure': GP training to help survivors

'Knowing where to go to get support can be difficult.'

Newcastle Herald

500 Hunter jobs under threat, but medicine costs halved

'To meet our loan repayments, we will have to reduce staff.'

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