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Chronic Disease Management and MBS deferred to 1 July 2025

On 25 September the Department of Health and Ageing announced the commencement date for Chronic Conditions Management MBS item changes have been deferred to 1 July 2025.
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The draft Advice on the National Suicide Prevention Strategy is open for public consultation

The draft Advice on the National Suicide Prevention Strategy has been released for public consultation.
We’d like to encourage you to provide your feedback!


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Co-located clinics go live for Far West NSW GPs

For the first time in NSW, General Practitioners (GPs) and General Practices in Far West NSW will have digital view-only access to a patient’s NSW Health medical information.
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Changes to Chronic Disease Management and MBS items

New information on changes to Chronic Conditions Management Items was released on 23 August 2024.

Subject to the passage of legislation, from 1 November 2024, there will be a revised structure for items for chronic disease management.
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Local trainee provides mental health support to Warren’s youth on Country

Proud Wiradjuri woman and Warren local, Shaana Daley, is providing much-needed culturally safe and informed mental health support to her community’s youth thanks to a trainee program aimed at improving access to Aboriginal mental health support in Western NSW.


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Four Additional Medicare Mental Health Centres to Open in NSW

On Friday 16 August 2024 at the Adult Mental Health Centre in Parramatta, the locations of four additional Medicare Mental Health Centres for NSW were announced. Medicare Mental Health Centres provide free, walk-in support for people struggling or in mental distress, and ongoing care for more complex mental health needs.


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WVPHN Launches National Residential Aged Care Home Telehealth Training Program

Led by Western Victoria Primary Health Network (WVPHN), a consortium of 16 Primary Health Networks (PHNs) across Australia launched the Residential Aged Care Telehealth Training Program this month.
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First major change to MBS Chronic Disease Management items since 2005

The Department of Health and Aged Care has announced major changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items for chronic disease management from 1 November 2024.

The changes recommended by the MBS Review Taskforce, are ‘the first major change to the framework in almost 20 years’.


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Signing up your residential aged care patients to MyMedicare

If your practice is planning to participate in the General Practice in Aged Care Incentive, you may be considering the practicalities of how to sign up your patients living in an aged care home for MyMedicare.
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