Australian Medicine - Special Budget Edition
 

Australian Medicine is the national news and information publication of the Australian Medical Association and is published fortnightly. To register to receive our fortnightly newsletter please subscribe here.

This publication is published as a flipbook, online and can be downloaded as a PDF.

AMA to challenge PIP changes
By AMA president Dr Steve Hambleton

In its budget the Federal Government has done the right thing by sparing health from broad funding cuts to provide a budget for tough economic times and to fund a budget surplus.

Read more

Budget hits doctor incentives and poses risk to public health.

Doctors hit my incentive cuts, tight rules as Budget redirects priorities
Cuts to practice Incentive Payments penalise GPs, risk public health

In broad terms the health portfolio was saved from the ‘slash and burn’ visited on other departments in this year’s Commonwealth Budget.

The AMA CPD Tracking service is available to all medical professionals to help manage ontinuing Professional Development (CPD) recording requirements. This service is available free to AMA members and at a small cost to non members.

At PowerBuy we speak with hundreds of local doctors and medical practices about their IT back-up needs and here are our top 5 tips for backing up your critical data: