Olivia Willis
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first heard Oct 2017
last heard May 2021
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Health Report · Mini-organs, sex in aged care and mental health at the GP's office · 23 Sep 2019
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Well, interestingly, I put that exact question to the college and they said, no, absolutely not.
They said that even with the end of the freeze, they feel that Medicare rebates still don't reflect the actual cost of delivering services in general practice, which effectively they say forces them to either absorb those increasing costs or pass those costs on to patients.
And so what they're actually calling for in this report is basically longer consultations that are
Subsidized by Medicare for patients with mental health.
At the moment, with the exception of appointments to set up mental health treatment plans, there's only actually one type of GP mental health consultation that attracts a rebate.
That's kind of a minimum of 20 minute session.
And GPC, without longer subsidized consultations of say 40 minutes, which you can get for a physical health consult, they're kind of being forced to cram fairly complex cases into either a
short appointment or to charge patients for more time, or as I've said before, where the out-of-pocket costs themselves.
So they basically want to see a Medicare rebate schedule that better incentivizes longer appointments.
Mm, it found about 40% of GPs had delayed seeking treatment for their mental health care in the last couple of years.
So time constraints were the biggest factor driving that.
But one in ten said that they'd put off seeking help for their own mental health because they were concerned about being reported.
So in all states and territories except WA, doctors are required to report colleagues to APRA, the Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency.
if they have a reasonable belief that a patient's safety is at risk.
And so the college is kind of now pushing for doctors who provide healthcare to other doctors, which would be, you know, a fairly substantial portion of them, to be exempt from that mandatory reporting so that doctors can, you know, go and discuss their health issues with other GPs comfortably and obviously confidentially.
James.
Hi,
Yeah, that's exactly right.
So basically it's a database that's been running since about 2004.
It's funded by the Fertility Society of Australia, which is the industry's peak body, and it's run by the University of New South Wales.
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