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Government Rejects Private Health Insurers Price Hike

Mr Hunt has written to insurers demanding they resubmit applications for 2020, after being hit with requests for increases understood to be an average 3.5 per cent - more than double the rate of inflation and higher than this year's 3.25 per cent hike. The medical devices industry, which is at war with insurers over
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Letter to the Editor – League Tables

Dear Sir, With regard to surgeons publishing individual complication rates it is all well and good for a surgeon to publish those but who has checked that all cases have been entered and who has checked that the complications quoted are accurate and have not been sanitised? Since January 1, 2010 the Australian and New
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The Physician’s Pledge – WMA DECLARATION OF GENEVA

Physician’s Pledge as amended by the 68th WMA General Assembly
Adopted by the 2nd General Assembly of the World Medical Association, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1948 and amended by the 22nd World Medical Assembly, Sydney, Australia, August 1968 and the 35th World Medical Assembly, Venice, Italy, October 1983 and the 46th WMA General Assembly, Stockholm, Sweden, September 1994 and editorially revised by the 170th WMA Council Session, Divonne-les-Bains, France, May 2005
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Dr Bruce Shepherd’s Obituary

Dr Bruce Shepard
Vale Dr Bruce Dalway Shepherd, AM (26/10/1932 – 25/05/2018) Bruce Dalway Shepherd was born at the height of the Great Depression on 26/10/1932 in the NSW country town of Tamworth.  It was a difficult birth. His mother Mary (a former trainee nurse at the Coast Hospital in Sydney) would have died of post-partum haemorrhage had
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APRA Releases Quarterly Private Health Insurance Statistics for Sep 2017

APRA Quarterly Private Health InsuranceReport
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) today released its quarterly private health insurance statistics publications for the September 2017 quarter. The publications provide industry aggregate summaries of key financial and membership statistics for the private health insurance industry. Key performance statistics for the private health insurance industry in the year ended 30 September 2017: See
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Accreditation Systems Review ASA Submission

Accreditation Systems Review ASA
ASA submission to the ‘Independent review of accreditation systems within the National Registration and accreditation scheme for health professionals’ Draft report September 2017 The ASA welcomes the opportunity to respond to this draft report from Professor Michael Woods. This ASA response is being submitted on the 16th October, 2017 as Australia celebrates National Anaesthesia Day.
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Accreditation Systems Review – Submission

Accreditation Systems Review
The Council of Procedural Specialists supports the concerns of Prof Nicholas Talley, Chair of the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges (CPMC). Talley said “the objectives of the National Registration and Accreditation scheme, in particular the protection of the public through the provision of high quality education and training and rigorous assessment of standards, will
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Sad Loss For Australian Medicine

Box Hill Hospital
“The death of Melbourne cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann is a painful loss to his family, his patients and to Australian medicine, ” Dr Gary Speck AM, Chairman of the Council of Procedural Specialists said in Melbourne today. “I know that doctors across Australia will be shocked at his death from injuries he received in
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