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The Latest Breaking News from Mark Butler

Bulk-billing clinic to open in Lake Macquarie, easing pressure on hospitals

The urgent care clinic will be open for extended hours, seven days a week.

Newcastle Herald

More than 5.4m extra doctor visits were bulk billed last year after incentives boost, health minister says

Increase follows Albanese government tripling financial rewards for GPs to bulk bill pensioners, concession card holders and children

The Guardian - AU

Australian private hospitals say government review shows sector isn’t profitable as it struggles to ‘keep surgery doors open’

Sector says review shows need for reform of funders and providers, however experts question potential selection bias of voluntary data

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Afternoon Update: Nacc to reconsider robodebt investigation; Biden clarifies ‘garbage’ gaffe; and should you buy an old house on Instagram?

A report found Paul Brereton should have ‘removed himself from related decision-making processes’

The Guardian - AU

'Radical transparency' to restore trust lost post-COVID

Victoria's former health chief says organisations like a future Centre for Disease Control would go a long way to rebuilding trust in pandemic responses.

AAP

Nation's sick state of readiness for pandemics unmasked

Australia's healthcare, economy and public service have been exhausted by COVID-19 and a Centre for Disease Control will be set up to prepare for pandemics.

AAP

Bad medicine: damning report shows healthcare 'out of reach for too many'

Thousands of people in the Hunter can't afford to see a GP.

Newcastle Herald

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Push for a third bulk-billing clinic in the Hunter during Health Minister visit

A disadvantaged part of the Hunter has, so far, missed out.

Newcastle Herald

Vaping flavours that appeal to kids go up in smoke

Laws coming into effect will limit the sale of vapes to behind pharmacy counters and limit the number of flavours available for the electronic devices.

AAP

‘Astounding’ lack of menopause education for Australia’s medical students must be remedied, Mark Butler says

Federal health minister also calls for prosecution of shopkeepers caught illegally selling vapes

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Immunocompromised to receive free shingles vaccine

More than 200,000 Australians who are immunocompromised will gain free access to the shingles vaccine in an expansion of a government scheme.

AAP

Hospitals still have to monitor IV bags amid shortage

Health Minister Mark Butler says health systems will still have to closely monitor IV fluid bag numbers, despite having enough amid a global shortage.

AAP

Minister vows 'assertive' approach on vape crackdown

While a ban on vape sales is starting to have an effect, Health Minister Mark Butler says further action is needed on stores that are illegally selling them.

AAP

China ‘testing us’ in Pacific, Biden tells Quad leaders – as it happened

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Cocaine users die of heroin overdoses after consuming tainted drugs at Sydney house party

Two others hospitalised, prompting health department to warn ‘heroin and other opioids can be found in cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA’

AAP

'Considerable failure' in policy leads to newborn death

A baby's preventable death during Melbourne's lockdown should prompt changes to Medicare eligibility for children of migrants, a coroner has found.

Newcastle Herald

'Gaslighting': federal government's bulk-billing narrative exposed

Whitebridge doctor says feds are 'trying to sell a narrative'.

AAP

Kids offered hope as cancer medicines made cheaper

New cancer medications and treatments for illnesses that also affect children have been made cheaper after being listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

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'Patients should know': GPs forced to hike fees over state payroll tax

GPs accuse NSW government of unfairly adding to patient costs.

The Canberra Times

New urgent care clinic set to open and it will bulk-bill

The free clinic is getting ready to open.

AAP

Mother of Bondi stabbing victim pleads for more support

A disjointed mental health sector means people are falling through the cracks, with the level of care dependent on where you live, a grieving mother says.

Fortune

Australians now need a prescription to buy a vape under new ‘world-leading’ law

The law restricts vape sales to pharmacies and will temporarily require a doctor’s prescription for the buyer.

AAP

No more pretty packaging and flavours, new vape laws

Under world-first laws, vapes will only be able to be sold at pharmacies over the counter as part of a national crackdown on the serious public health menace.

AAP

World-first laws curtailing vape sales pass parliament

Vapes will only be able to be sold over the counter at pharmacies under world-leading reforms passed by federal parliament.

AAP

Long wait for aged-care bed, NDIS places clog hospitals

A chronic shortage in NDIS and aged-care placements is crippling the NSW hospital system, the state's health minister says.

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