All the best!!! @billshortenmp You are a formidable intellect in the Australian political sphere. It’s fantastic to see you stepping into a government/education role rather than a lobbying position

If your 🧠 could talk, it will CERTAINLY tell you to keep AWAY from Alcohol! Not just mental health problems, ⬆️breast cancer ⬆️bowel cancer ⬆️heart disease, strokes & many more! Festive season, don’t feel compelled to take Alc. ONLY Alcohol companies benefit from Alcohol

>70% of people who come to an ED goes home! (Within 4hrs) many people DONT go to ED for emergencies. They go to ED 👉🏼due to Broken System (Primary Care) 👉🏼no other place to go 👉🏼ease getting things sorted/access 👉🏼one stop shop, 👉🏼Other services open & colocated (🩻 ect)

“It’s classic military thinking; you prepare for the worst case. So… why doesn’t that same argument apply to global warming?”

Rural communities are now welcoming interns & junior docs who are yet to finalise their future training pathway! Help us show them how awesome a rural medical career is :) 👉 bit.ly/3WjcCW2 #DestinationRural #gorural #ruralhealth

‘It’s what we should be doing anyway’: using financial incentives to promote relational continuity in Australian General Practice—a nested case study analysis academic.oup.com/fampra/article…

Great to see GP/RG focus in today’s health workforce announcements by Mark Butler MP & Anthony Albanese ✅More GP training places ✅New salary incentives GP trainees ✅New parental & study leave payments for GP trainees ✅More junior doc rotations in GP ✅More funded med school places

✅Will $8.5B Medicare boost reduce out-of-pocket costs? Yes ✅It will easily increase fully bulk-billing practices. Already 4,500 clinics are (out of 7,500) fully bulk-billing Good policy Michael Wright Marita Cowie AM Mark Butler MP Anthony Albanese

$265M GP training (400+spots) $205M GP reg sal incentives $44M GP trainee entitlements $44M John Flynn placements $48M 100+ CSP med students $3.5B tripling bulk bill incentives $500M women’s health Total 4B What is rest of 8.5B for? Stephen Duckett Michael Wright

Why I’ve Decided to Retire from Presenting Elections Plus a few words of thanks antonygreen.com.au/why-ive-decide…

What happens when you do surgery with a chainsaw: "Hundreds of Thousands Will Die." newyorker.com/podcast/the-ne…

Good review piece, still early days for AI use obviously, but now might be the time to think about implications for MBS prices and policies on use nature.com/articles/s4158…

First report on evaluation of Medicare Urgent Care Centres released health.gov.au/sites/default/…

Let it die, just don’t be seen killing it: The silent policy behind rural procedural decline Rural hospitals are hollowing out — open in name, empty in service. We chase ‘system safety’ while communities left unsafe? Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) President Dr Marian Dover Ryan Park MP RDAA

The Special Commission of Inquiry into Healthcare Funding report - it’s a must-read. health.nsw.gov.au/Reports/Pages/… Little analysis and evidence - the optimal way of risking the wastage of precious public funds. You can responsibly stop this! Ryan Park MP Mary-Anne Thomas MP

Special Com Inquiry into Acute Care by NSW Health screaming out 👉🏼Embedding prevention in State health services is MUST 👉🏼If primary care is inefficient, 2ry/Tertiary care won’t cope/perform Major restructure needed Ryan Park MP Julie Leask AO Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) President RDAA

Billion-Dollar Digital Health Record SDPR NSW Health — That Forgot to Talk to Primary Care! It took Special Commissioner to finally state obvious! Ryan Park MP Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) President RDAA Stephen Duckett Melissa Sweet ACRRM

🚁 $158.8M for 3 new ambulance helicopter bases in rural NSW is a WIN! But the job’s not done until we fix retrieval pathways such as no >250 km by road, selection of destination 🏥 Ryan Park MP NSW Ambulance RDAA RDANSW

Everyone’s talking about the “new” bulk billing incentives. Is it really a win for general practice — or a slow trap that trades independence for control? Access & quality shouldn’t be opposites, yet somehow, our system keeps forcing us to choose open.substack.com/pub/alamyoosuf…

#RuralGeneralist is like a Swiss knife — able to morph into whatever the situation demands. It’s not multitasking for the sake of it; it’s connecting all parts of #ruralhealth care into one purpose RDAA ACRRM Riverina Regional Training Hub Rural Doctors Network (RDN) omny.fm/shows/destinat…