National Primary Health Care Partnership (NPHCP); Another Bureaucracy?

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In Australia, the Minister for Health recently launched In Australia, the Minister for Health recently launched The National Primary Health Care Partnership (NPHCP). This is a collaboration of 19 professional organisations representing over 100,000 primary care professionals and consumers and provides an advocacy body and communications platform for the Australian Primary Health Care Factor. More information is posted at http://www.nphcp.com.au

I cannot help wonder whether this may conflict with the establishment of a national registration body for health professions in the big brown land.

Am I missing something?

What say you?

toeslayer

 

Cameron wrote:

I dont think this will really have much to do with national registration at all.

The Partnership is dealing with the funding and delivery of primary care services, and this may or may not include broader Medicare arrangements for podiatry and other non-medical services. As the Federal Health Minister has intimated, there is the possibility that the GP "gatekeeper" stanglehold on the health system is up for consideration also. It is not related to the issue of registration and accreditation of health professions.

I was reliably informed at a GP conference I presented at recently that 25% of the general practice is due to retire and not be replaced by 2010! This is a recipe for a crisis in primary care, and is why the Feds are on the front foot in trying to develop a strategy to get non-medical professionals to take on a broader role. It would seem it would take a crisis in the GP workforce to "allow" us to practice at a level somewhat closer to our US colleagues, despite all the requests that have been made over the years. That's politics for ya'. :craig:

These are perhaps very exciting times, however I am a little concerned that there is a non-podiatrist representing the profession at the committee level...:wacko: Hopefully she realises we do a little more that cut toenails and dish out bits of plastic inside shoes.

LL

 

From today's Courier Mail, and out of the "other" reform bureaucracy, the NHHRC.

LL