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David Adam

With five week's warning, the Australian Medicare arrangements for chronic disease management are being basically upended.

It's important to remember that the primary function of the CDM program is to encourage primary care general practitioners and general practices to direct bill (bulk-bill) Medicare rather than charging patients who could then claim a rebate. It was introduced as direct-billing rates started to slide in the 90s and successfully arrested it. My personal view is they are rarely clinically useful and largely perceived by patients as "a letter for free podiatry".

The changes - of course - come with a funding cut, somewhere between 10 and 50% depending on how you work it out.

#primarycare#auspol
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Danni Storm 🇺🇦 🇺🇦

Medical and health research is vital to medicine and public health. There are already real world impacts felt around the country and around the world. People are dying, medical breakthroughs being delayed or prevented, and we are dismantling protections against #environmentalhazards. To put it in terms of money: health research grant money has a tangible #roi. It is not a money sink: we get more than we put in.

Access to healthcare is also being threatened with cuts to Medicaid which would prevent many who currently qualify from qualifying in the future. This means more #humans being kept from health insurance. A trip to the doctor is no longer a question of time or coinsurance but instead a decision between #life with crippling #debt or #death. #republicans are pushing for these cuts so their rich buddies pay even less in taxes and we can spend more the military. They are responsible for when you or your loved ones are faced with the decision between debt and death.

Please share and for those in the #usa #CallYourReps! And if a medical professional, researcher, or practitioner of some kind please sign.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

(apologies for the wall of hashtags)
#medical #Science #medicine #MedicalCare #researcher #HealthResearcher #HealthProfessional #health #health_research #research #Medical_research #funding #researchfunding #fundingcuts #researchgrants #NSF #hhs #USDepartmentofHealthandHumanServices #hhs_secretary #Robert_kennedy_jr #brainworm #cdc #TheCDC #centers_for_disease_control #osha #occupationalhealth #nih #nationalinstitutesofhealth #EnvironmentalScience #environmentalhealth #pollution #GOPLies #gop #medicalresearch #primarycare #pediatrics #pediatrician #nurses #nursing #congress #uspol #uspolitics #mikejohnson #project2025 #globalhealth #safety #HealthMonitoring #InfectionPrevention #pathogen #infectious_disease #vaccine #VaccineTrust #measles #MMR #mmr_vaccine #covid #LongCovid #cancer #cancer_immunology #cancertreatment #cancer_research #cancerresearch #MentalHeath #psychology #therapy #healthequity #Treatment #cure #trump #TrumpRegime #TrumpLies #budget #medicare #medicaid #cms #insurance #healthinsurance #access #healthcareaccess #medicaidcuts #taxbreaks #human_rights #humanrights

Google DocsA message of concern from the nation’s health professionalsTo add your name to the letter, please complete the fields below: Step 1: For Individuals: Enter your name, degree(s), and affiliation exactly as you would like them to appear in the published letter. Step 2: For Organizations: If you are signing on behalf of your institution, please complete Part 2 as well.
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Malaysian Medical Resources

Clinics are not pharmacies. They’re healthcare providers. Comparing med prices to retail ignores consultation, diagnosis, and continuity of care. You’re not just buying pills — you’re buying expertise.
nst.com.my/news/nation/2025/05

New Straits Times · Private clinics mark up medicine prices by as much as 75pct, survey revealsBy SAADIAH ISMAIL
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Matteo Cesari

Supporting countries to ensure the continuum of integrated care for older people

"...importance of delivering personalised, comprehensive, coordinated #care to older people, supporting a shift from traditional disease-oriented approach towards more holistic care..."

"...ICOPE is consistent with and based on the large body of evidence built by geriatricians over the past decades..."

#Health #Geriatrics #PrimaryCare #Ageing #Aging #IntegratedCare #PublicHealth

link.springer.com/article/10.1

SpringerLinkSupporting countries to ensure the continuum of integrated care for older people - Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
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Brian Pierce MD

@kkjetelina.bsky.social Your measles FAQ is very useful and timely, thank you! I've been searching PubMed, etc. looking for clear recommendations, guidelines, data for measles boosters by year vaccinated like you show in your table in the FAQ. Where did you find that data? #primarycare #IDsky

10 FAQs on MMR and Measles Pro...

Bluesky SocialKatelyn Jetelina (@kkjetelina.bsky.social)Epidemiologist, lover of the ocean and ice cream. Mom of two toddlers. Founder of “Your Local Epidemiologist”. https//yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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Jan R. Boehnke

Colleagues investigate how to counteract inequalities in harms caused by alcohol in the most deprived areas in #Scotland

Full project report
shaap.org.uk/downloads/reports

Blog
vhscotland.org.uk/andreas-blog

The most recent paper stresses that
"...participants felt that the mainstream specialist alcohol services, the ADRS, did not provide the level of #PersonCentred care necessary to engage and support the patient group..."
bmcprimcare.biomedcentral.com/

SHAAPAlcohol management in Deep End practicesScottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP)
#Nursing#PrimaryCare#AssertiveOutreach
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nextdigitalhealth

Primary Care Telemedicine : Transforming Healthcare Delivery

Primary care telemedicine provides quick, effective and easy access to the medical services.

In this blog post, we will briefly discuss how telemedicine is changing the way that primary care is provided to the patients living near as well as overseas and also many benefits that it brings to patients and doctors.

Read: nextdigitalhealth.com/healthca

Primary Care Telemedicine : Transforming Healthcare Delivery
#telemedicine#primarycare#TelemedicineSolutions
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Auscandoc

Canada, Denmark and the Netherlands all have mixed systems of physician payment – some fee-for-service, some capitation, and some salaried.

Physicians in Denmark and the Netherlands, in general, take home markedly less than those in Canada, but have far more administrative support and, it seems, better work-life balance. Unlike Canada, family doctors are paid the same, or more, than other specialists.” #FamilyPhysicians #PrimaryCare med-mastodon.com/@picardonheal

Med-MastodonAndré Picard (@picardonhealth@med-mastodon.com)The Dutch and Danes have demonstrated that every citizen can have a family doctor. Canada needs to learn from them to fix primary care. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-dutch-and-danes-have-much-to-teach-canada-about-better-health-care/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links
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