general practice

Date: 8th November 2023 
Name of podcast: The PMR Podcast
Episode number: 2

Sarah Bartholomeusz from You Legal joins me to discuss Payroll Tax and its relevance in Australian Healthcare. You Legal is a specialist medical law firm that helps doctors and practice owners to legally protect their practice, patients and profits.

(Please note that we recorded this podcast in August, and there have been some state-specific updates since then).

In this episode, we discuss the blurred lines between contractors and employees and how it may see you liable to pay more than just Payroll Tax.  Sarah references the Jamsek Case. To learn more about this landmark ruling, please take read the blog linked here.

We also talk about how the flow of money in your practice has a large influence on the risk of being found liable to pay payroll tax in your medical practice. You can also find more information about that topic here.  

You Legal are experts in these areas and can help you understand your individual risk, as well as create agreements to help minimise risk. Please reach out to You Legal on the below details:
Landline:  1300 870 661
Email:  info@youlegal.com.au
Website: https://youlegal.com.au/contact

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Join Dr Norman Swan and The Hon. Mark Butler MP, Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, as they discuss the most critical issues facing general practice and healthcare today, including MyMedicare, tripling of the BBI ahead of 1 November, the health implications of The Voice Referendum and the latest updates on the aged care agenda.

Megan Shorter from People Medical Consulting joins me to discuss IMG GP recruitment.

Megan founded People Medical Consulting in 2014 and has over ten years of GP Recruitment experience. 

In this episode, we discuss some of the challenges that IMG doctors face on their journey to working as a GP in Australia. We mostly talk about the standard pathway and what clinics need to know before trying to recruit an IMG, and how they can support them to thrive in their new role.

We also talk about the Health Workforce Locator, which I have linked for you here:
https://www.health.gov.au/resources/apps-and-tools/health-workforce-locator/app

If you need help, People Medical Consulting has a short blog with further info, which you can find here:
https://www.peoplemedical.com.au/how-to-check-the-health-workforce-locator/

If you would like to speak to People Medical Consulting, you can contact them on the below details:
Landline: 07 3503 1444
Email: help@peoplemedical.com.au

Thank you for listening!

The new antibody treatments for Alzheimer’s have been described as game changers, but are they really? We discuss the latest advances in Alzheimer’s treatment with some of the leading experts in the field. This episode explores what else is on the horizon, what other interventions should still be used and how the focus on intervention has shifted to early dementia.

Primary care sits at the very centre of Australia’s healthcare system and the recent Federal Budget announced some huge numbers and big commitments to general practice. In this discussion, we delved into the detail behind it with multi-award-winning broadcaster and journalist, Dr Norman Swan, and Hon. Mark Butler MP, Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, in an exclusive interview and Q&A.

The biggest changes in general practice in decades are about to occur. This webinar explores the ways practices can act now to be better prepared and maybe even put themselves ahead of the game. 

Almost 1 year after the Russian invasion of his country, Ukrainian family physician Dr Oleksii Korzh shares his experiences with host Dr Sarah Fraser. Dr Korzh talks about how medical needs and care have changed during the conflict. Find out why family doctors have never been more important to Ukraine’s health care system in this special episode of the CFP Podcast. Dr Korzh is Head of the Department of General Practice and Family Medicine at the Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education.

Read Dr Korzh’s related CFP blog post.

For years GP’s have had to deal with the fallout from a broken system that has overburdened practices and left them on their knees. The solution lies in designing our care system and shaping it for what it does well - caring for individuals as part of a team and improving primary care outcomes.

In this discussion, led by Dr Norman Swan, we speak to some of Australia's leading experts about the issues facing General Practice today.

In the first episode of Resident Life I'm joined by Dr Bo Bi. Bo is a rural generalist in her final few months of training. She explains what the training program involves (03:18). Then we take a deep look at the mental health challenges of working in a rural community (16:35) and the stereotypes surrounding being a female doctor in a hospital (30:26). On a brighter topic Bo describes her passion for music and how taking a gap year influenced her medical journey (36:28). Finally we discuss some tips on how to fight fatigue and burnout (44:31) and Bo tell us about her upcoming role with integrating rural medicine with the UQ medical school (51:30). I hope you enjoy listening!

What does an international bestselling parenting book have to offer mental health practitioners and health professionals? More than you might think!

Join host Dr Monica Moore, general practitioner and psychotherapist, and Dr Paul Grinzi, general practitioner and medical educator, as they reveal their responses to and reflections on the renowned ‘No.1 practical guide’ to parenting and family life – ‘How To Talk So Kids Will Listen, and Listen So Kids Will Talk’ (1980) – by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.

Monica and Paul reveal how they initially met each other, what they find rewarding, challenging, and fruitful about their work in general practice, and importantly, their reactions – as individuals, parents, and practitioners – to the book, and how reading it has helped them in more ways than they anticipated.

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Note: This episode of Book Club was originally released in August 2021 to the Book Club podcast show, and has since been re-released on MHPN Presents.

Why is it in all our best interests to understand the long-term effects of childhood adversity?

To answer this question, our host Dr Johanna Lynch; a GP, enlists her trusted friend and colleague, Dr Cathy Kezelman AM; a medical practitioner and mental health consumer advocate, to the joint task of unpacking the popular book – ‘The Deepest Well: Healing the Long Term Effects of Childhood Adversity’ (2019) – by renowned pediatrician, Nadine Burke Harris.

Hear from Johanna and Cathy as they dive into ‘The Deepest Well’ revealing crucial insights into the ‘unseen epidemic’ of childhood adversity. Listeners will gain an understanding of the urgency and scale of this issue for clinicians; the role of awareness in medical funding and policy; and most importantly, the wealth of evidence backing Burke Harris’ key message that, in both the immediate aftermath and cumulatively following experiences of childhood adversity, the question is not ‘whether’ but rather ‘to what degree’ trauma takes its toll on us, our bodies, our health, and our lives.

Drawing on their combined professional experience in the area, Johanna and Cathy share their expertise in childhood adversity as an important context shaping their responses to ‘The Deepest Well’. Tune into Johanna and Cathy’s conversation and engage with them on multiple levels - as admirers of Burke Harris’ research, as mental health practitioners, and simply as readers of ‘The Deepest Well’ – to discover why, in their view, all practitioners should add this compelling book to their list of essential reads.

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Note: This episode of Book Club was originally released in August 2021 to the Book Club podcast show and has since been re-released on MHPN Presents.

Mental Health In Focus is a podcast brought to you by the Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN).

Each episode will take you on a deep dive into specific mental health topics to broaden your knowledge and give you a holistic understanding of contemporary areas of mental health in Australia. Subscribe now to stay up-to-date, and don’t forget to leave a rating.

This episode covers impetigo.

Written notes can be found at https://zerotofinals.com/paediatrics/dermatology/impetigo/ or in the dermatology section of the Zero to Finals paediatrics book.

The audio in the episode was expertly edited by Harry Watchman.

This episode covers pityriasis rosea.

Written notes can be found at https://zerotofinals.com/paediatrics/dermatology/pityriasis/ or in the dermatology section of the Zero to Finals paediatrics book.

The audio in the episode was expertly edited by Harry Watchman.

Dr Anshumen Bhagat, Founder and Chief Medical Officer of GPDQ - alongside continuing to be a practicing NHS GP - joined us on episode 18 of NHE’s Finger on the Pulse podcast, talking us through primary care, its challenges over the last 12 months and his visions for its future. We talk difficulties, solutions and ambitions in this insightful episode of the podcast.

GPDQ is an organisation well-placed to be assisting with the NHS’ primary care challenges right now, because each and every one of it’s members experiences those challenges in their own daily working lives.

That is because one of the core values at the heart of GPDQ is that it is run by working NHS staff. Be it a GP, specialist nurse or paramedic, should a healthcare professional move entirely into private practice, then they won’t be found among GPDQ’s roster of staff.

And having that skin in the game, so to speak, is important. As Anshu explains: “We lose about 90-100 GPs a month in this country. We need more coming through.”

So, to be able to provide opportunities to work differently, to work with different teams and provide services perhaps outside of their day-to-day NHS duties, including private practice, all without removing staff from an already waning health service pool is essential.

It is a belief seen in one of GPDQ’s convictions when it does provide private healthcare. In part, due to its staff’s continued involvement in the NHS side of affairs, moving treatment and care to private provision is less about seizing on a commercial opportunity, and far more about the knock-on implications that can have for those who do have to rely on the NHS to provide their care.

“Every patient we see in the private sector is one less patient who needs to be seen in the public sector.”

With the pandemic, that has become truer than ever before. The NHS is facing a significant treatment backlog, to overcome which it will have to work with and rely on services like those which GPDQ provide. And to their credit, these services have innovated significantly in response to the pandemic’s demands too.

Anshu describes how his organisation and colleagues have worked to deliver necessary services, including virtual clinics - including being able to step in at short notice for NHS staff absences (minimising disruption for patients) - through to running home visitations still where necessary using Covid ‘hot’ car systems.

It is a period of substantial change for primary care right now, with the likes of Anshu being able to provide a great insight into it from both sides of the NHS/private debate.

To hear much more from Anshu, listen in to episode 18 of NHE’s Finger on the Pulse podcast… 

Dr Robert Menz discusses diagnosis of hereditary haemochromatosis in general practice. Dr Menz is an Australian General Practitioner based in Adelaide, South Australia. He has a particular interest in Chronic Disease Management.   He is the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Medical Advisor for the  RACGP exam, a member of the SA/NT faculty board and also a senior examiner. He has an interest in Standards, and is an Australian General Practice Accreditation Limited (AGPAL) practice surveyor. Robert completed a Masters in Clinical Education in 2013 and teaches General Practice and Clinical Education. 
The IRON MATTERS podcast series is published by Haemochromatosis Australia (www.ha.org.au). Produced by Healthily.com.au.

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