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National Doctors Health and Wellbeing Leadership Alliance
Message from Chair 2 May
Trainee Forum Communique – College Initiatives to Support Flexible Training
$7.9 million for research collaboration on policy and practice
$7.9 million to improve healthcare with more collaborative research
Here’s why pharmacists are angry at script changes – and why the government is making them anyway
Sugar tax: a sweet deal for public health and the upcoming federal budget
Steps towards primary care reform welcome, but May budget will be the test of government’s commitment to general practice
Extended dispensing rules
New national funding approach needed as public hospitals performance plummets
AMA’s 2022 annual report released
Report card shows hospitals in further decline and needing help
Alliance for doctors’ health meet in Canberra
Medicine costs halved for struggling Australians, delivering cost-of-living relief
It’s time to start planning for 2024 National Conference – and you can play a part
AMA Queensland mentions in Queensland Parliament
Two month prescribing a welcome win for consumers facing cost of living increases
Checklist for Cheaper Medicines – Helping patients afford medicines as cost-of-living soars 
AMA calls for urgent private health insurance reform
Funding scheme for GPs welcomed, but government urged to deliver a ‘health budget’ this year
AMA welcomes Government’s delivery of $220 million General Practice Grants
A dozen reports can’t be wrong – address anti-competitive ownership and location rules for pharmacies
You deserve more campaign launches
UK-style mail out vapes not answer to quit smoking
Invitation: Deloitte discusses future of healthcare in NSW
Only medical degree can train pharmacist to prescribe
Launch of national approach to Doctor health and wellbeing
Government child vaccine campaign
Seeking expressions of interest: DiT vacancy on AMA Board
AMA thanks Professor Brendan Murphy AC on his service
Save Money or Save Patients: What is Medicare About?
Bulk Billing for Patients: Radical Ideas to Achieve a Fair Go Welcomed
Compliance review vindicates doctors, dismissing claims of widespread rorting
Medicare freeze strips $4 billion from general practice
Australian Private Hospital Association 40th National Congress
AMA calls for safer, healthier and more supportive work environments for hospital doctors
The AMA provides a submission to the Privacy Act Review Consultation
Medicare compliance review stands by doctor integrity and calls for future-proofing of Medicare
Virtual GP Roundtable – Better than a backup: supporting doctors in training to choose a career in general practice
University of Sydney research puts the kybosh on Medicare fraud claims
Close to $4 billion stripped from general practice as a result of Medicare freeze
Doctors stressed, burnt out and susceptible to distressing regulatory processes, reports show
Health minister responds to AMA President’s letter on pharmacy trials
Australia failing to uphold the human rights of people in custody, including children, says AMA
UK report provides more evidence of the strain Australia’s GPs are under
Call for bigger pharmacy discounts for cheaper PBS medicines
Vaping law changes imminent
Vital heart health test needs to be safeguarded not cut