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2011 Renewals Fact Sheet
What you need to do Know your registration expiry date The AMA will be communicating messages based on registration expiry dates. Doctors with general and/or specialist registration should now either have an expiry date of 30 September 2011 or 30 September 2012. This fact sheet applies to doctors whose… Read full story
Posted on: 25 Jul 2011
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AMA (NSW) 2011 Priorities Overview
AMA (NSW) today released its 2011 State Election Priorities (PDF) (201 Kb) paper, and called on all state political parties to commit to the paper’s key recommendations. AMA (NSW) President, Dr Michael Steiner, said the paper outlined a comprehensive policy blueprint for the development of a stronger and more… Read full story
Posted on: 24 Feb 2011
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AMA (NSW) Doctor-in-Training 2011 State Election Priorities
AMA (NSW) has released its Doctor-in-Training 2011 State Election Priorities policy which aims to ensure that the increase in the number of medical graduates provides a solution to the severe medical workforce shortages that are currently impacting on patient care. In order to achieve this, we need every… Read full story
Posted on: 12 Jan 2011
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Getting to Grips With the NSW Budget
Navigating a NSW budget is disorienting work, but when it comes to health spending it truly is a hall of mirrors. This year we brought in the big guns to help us analyse the State Budget – especially in the context of State/Federal funding reforms. National consulting firm Access Economics was… Read full story
Posted on: 14 Jul 2010
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Pre-Budget Briefing
On 30 May 2010, AMA (NSW) Councillors, A/Prof Brian Owler and Prof. Brad Frankum briefed journalists ahead of the 2010 State Budget and argued that there must be an increase of 9.6% just to stand still. Cick here (PDF) (64 Kb)to read the briefing. Read full story
Posted on: 2 Jun 2010
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AMA (NSW) survey quantifies waiting list frustrations
A survey of NSW public hospital surgeons in April/May carried out on behalf of AMA (NSW) by Essential Research has found that only 20 per cent of surgeons believe that official waiting time figures accurately reflect actual waiting time. Click here (PDF) (1 Mb)to read more. Read full story
Posted on: 1 Jun 2010
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National Registration - Practice Nurses
Australia’s new National Registration and Accreditation Scheme is due to commence on 1 July 2010. From this date, a new National Law (the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009) will come into effect and 10 health professions will be regulated by nationally consistent legislation. For… Read full story
Posted on: 7 May 2010
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COAG Agreement
Summary of COAG agreement April 2010 (PDF) (1 Mb) Read full story
Posted on: 1 May 2010
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GP Campaign Launch
Family doctors – “the heart of health” (PDF) (1 Mb) Read full story
Posted on: 1 May 2010
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Health Reform
Our hospital reformation (PDF) (3 Mb) Read full story
Posted on: 1 Apr 2010
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