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Michelle Ananda-Rajah

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Health Minister Mark Butler is mulling major changes to the NDIS as he banks on a lower growth trajectory in next month’s budget.

Two Labor MPs – both of them doctors – say the NDIS must be redesigned

Their call for a system redesign comes as new data reveals people with lower support needs now make up more than 40 per cent of participants in the $50 billion scheme.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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The turf war between GPs and pharmacists is heating up after the Victorian government announced plans to allow pharmacists to prescribe oral contraceptives to patients without a doctor’s script

GPs reveal dossier of pharmacy blunders as prescription fight ramps up

A turf war has erupted between GPs and pharmacists over changes that allow patients to get the pill from pharmacies without a doctor’s script.

  • Henrietta Cook