Health Minister Mark Butler warned “more of the same is not going to cut it” as he refused to commit to increasing the GP rebate.
in the hopes that this would encourage more GPs to bulk bill or work extra hours, taking the strain off overcrowded emergency departments.are also resisting the push for pharmacists to prescribe more drugs to patients directlyBut Butler said simply adding more money to the health system’s existing structures would not meet the needs of an ageing population with increasingly complex health issues.
“Simply adding more money to the existing structures is not going to deliver the quality wraparound care [that] particularly people with complex chronic disease need and deserve,” Butler said at a press conference in Canberra. Butler said the taskforce had probed a blended “wraparound” model of funding as one option to consider. This could involve providing doctors’ clinics with lump sums that enabled them to offer care from nurses or different health professionals as well as traditional fee-for-service funding.
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