AMA opinion

The AMA continues to lead the debate on the future of general practice in Australia. Here are a selection of articles and opinion from AMA leaders.

Dr Andrew Pesce, President, AMA

A big year ahead for general practice (Australian Doctor, 7 January 2010)
Primary Care update (16 February 2010)
Promoting general practice (Medical Observer, 4 March 2010)
Build general practice in tandem with hospitals (Medical Observer, 5 March 2010)
More reform to come (Australian Doctor, 5 March 2010)
Providing better solutions (Australian Doctor, 3 May 2010)
An Open Letter to Australian GPs (Australian Medicine, 19 October 2009)
GP red tape blues (Australian Medicine, June 2010)
Health reform can't wait (speech to the National Press Club, 21 July 2010)

 

 

Dr Steve Hambleton, Vice President, AMA

A few weeks is a long time in politics (Australian Medicine, April 5 2010)
AMA campaign to protect and promote general practice  (Australian Medicine, 14 December 2009)
Doing the hard yards (Australian Medicine, 2 November 2009)
Diabetes - but not as the Government knows it (Medical Observer, 22 June 2010)

 

 

Dr Harry Hemley, President, AMA Victoria

Will the new-look divisions really serve the locals? (Australian Doctor, 8 June 2010, external link)
The beginning of the end of Medicare? (vicdoc, June 2010)
Time for healthy debate (The Age, 27 July 2009 – external link)
Is central control best for Victoria? (vicdoc, September 2009)
NHHRC foreshadows ‘reform’ for general practice (vicdoc, October 2009)
Patients’ long wait for care must end (The Age, 3 December 2009 – external link)

 

Dr Brian Morton, Chair, AMA Council of General Practice

• Welcome funding for practice nurses (Australian Medicine, June 2010)
•  Protect General Practice (NSW Doctor, February 2010)

Dr David Rivett, Chair, AMA Rural Medicine Committee

• Budget 2010: what's good and what's not (Australian Medicine, June 2010)
• Change: do the sums, stop the guesswork (Australian Medicine, 14 December 2009)
• More involvement, better communication, greater results (Australian Medicine, 16 November 2009)
• Team care - utopia or pipe dream? (Australian Medicine, 5 October 2009)

Dr Tony Bartone, Chair, Section of general practice, AMA Victoria

• Consequences (vicdoc, November 2009)
• Christmas wish list for general practice (vicdoc, December 2009)
• The real blame game: GP-hospital interface (vicdoc, May 2010)