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The doctor will see you… never. Issues with online referral services.
‘a well person who simply needs a letter to see a specialist should be able to get one without requiring a GP consultation’ Why does a ‘well person’ need to see a medical subspecialist rather than a specialist in Primary Care – their GP? They don’t need a letter to...
Named Outpatient Referrals in South Australia
The good GP has a stewardship role in the Australian medical system and part of this is referring to subspecialist and hospital care. This is an important role and we don't take it lightly. We want to do our best for our patients and help them get the care they...
Primary care essential to Advance Australia Fair
Original article from Croakey - Written by Dr Bastian Seidel and edited by Amy Coopes I've had the pleasure of meeting Dr Seidel and he makes some excellent points below. PartridgeGP will be taking these on board and taking action. This is what we're...
Care to Plan, Plan to Care
Whichever way you look at it, patients these days have higher expectations and usually more issues to sort out! Let us work together to Help You. Care Plans, Team Care Arrangements, Health Assessments, and Mental Health Care Plans may allow You to receive Medicare...
Feeling down about Depression?
(Cross posted from the ThinkGP blog) Many years ago, coming to general practice from an emergency medicine background, I sat down with a group of trainee GPs. We started to talk about what we would see in general practice. I'd been working as a locum in general...
Five things Your Practice can do to Reduce Your Cyber and Privacy Security Risk
Are you a Practice Owner? Are You embracing the brave new world of E everything? Paul Fitzgerald, of Cyber Health International offers You some thoughts in this guest post on partridgegp.com. The Australian Privacy Principles, and the recently passed (by the...