pray roxon does not get sick in this country.............
Posted by E Jones 18/11/2008 6:55:07 PM
Imagine a more mature Roxon with a non painful Acute Coronary Syndrome with the only symptom of nausea. Off she troddles to her local pharmacist whose guidelines for a Dr's note state "able to treat moderate to severe nausea with GP follow up next day" .......... priceless (or actually quiet affordable at the bargan price of $13 for the 5 min consult)
Posted by brad 18/11/2008 8:08:59 PM
There are a few steps that can be taken immediately to save both costs and time consumption for GPs in the delivery of Mental Health Care. The plans as they are now are too time consuming to be repeated every 6 sessions. The average patient according to Medicare stats sees a psychologist under 6 sessions and more complex cases will tend to use all 12 to 18. Why not get rid of the 6 and 12 session reviews and make it a requirement of the psychologist to provide reports/update letters at these points? That would cut the paperwork and time by 50% to 66% for GPs. The other cost saving measure would be going back to the original Better Outcomes inclusion criteria of Clinical Psychologists (trained in Mental Health) receiving the rebate and doing away with generalist psychologists. Generalists cost Medicare around 70-80% of total. Extra money saved could be re invested in Clinical training programs to increase supply.
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