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COVID-19 Infection Prevention & Control Risk Management – Guidance

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare has published a Fact Sheet ...

HotDoc Webinar – Special Guest Series

HotDoc will be hosting a free webinar in their Special Guest Series ...

Help Resolving Workplace Issues

Fair Work has a guide to resolving workplace issues on their website ...

Informed Patient Decisions

Practitioners have a responsibility to ensure their patients understand the treatment, referrals and procedures that are being recommended/given to them ...

JobKeeper & Annual Leave

Under JobKeeper, employees can be asked to take annual leave ...

Third Party Consent

To comply with Australian privacy laws, practices must obtain consent prior to a third party being present during a patient's consultation ...

Cancelling Annual Leave

With many travel and border restrictions in force at the moment, your staff may wish to cancel their planned annual leave ...

Single Touch Payroll Reporting

Do you report to the ATO via Single Touch Payroll (STP) ...

MBS Quick Guide

The Australian Doctor's updated MBS Quick Guide includes the 1.5% indexation on fees which came into effect on 1 July ...

Translating and Communication Services

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for practices to ensure that their practice team is aware of translating services for those patients whose first language is not English ...

Full-time to Part-time Employment

If you made any changes to staff hours under the JobKeeper scheme and decide to make them permanent ...

Information about your practice …

Information about your practice is important to all patients ...

Open Disclosure

Has something happened in your practice which has caused harm to a patient while they were receiving treatment or care ...

Are you prepared for a data breach?

Data breaches can be deliberate or accidental and can happen at any time ...

JobKeeper & Payslips

Payslips still need to be issued as normal during the time employees are receiving JobKeeper payments ...

Asthma Support for Patients

Free phone support for your patients with asthma is available from Asthma Australia ...

COVID-19 Safe Workplace Principles

With restrictions starting to ease and more people going back to work, businesses and workers must actively control against the transmission of COVID-19 while at work ...