Michael Rice

#justaGP in Beaudesert, health services advocate, @ScoutsQLD supporter, director @RDAQFoundation, past-president @RuralDocsQ. Opinions: very much my own.

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

@QldPolice Could you list those platforms that better connect?

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

@QldPolice WHICH platforms “better connect”?

Bizarre that you haven’t said.

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

Hobart friends! Has anyone seen THE HAT?

Last sighting near Frank Restaurant on Monday evening 14-4-25

[Peter Greste @PeterGreste]

THAT Hat! Is missing. A constant companion through my career as a correspondent, when I was arrested in Egypt and makes a cameo appearance above Richard Roxburgh’s head in #TheCorrespondent. Lost outside Frank restaurant in #Hobart, 6pm Monday April 14th. I’d love it back!!

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

There are not enough provider/practitioners to make a difference at the ballot box. Patients' massed voices are the only thing that gets attention and provokes change

[feminaust @feminaust]

@SimonCopland 100% this. I work in primary care - in particular abortion/contraception/sexual health & the fees charged for services by other providers are absurd & unethical. We need our health care providers to fight back & demand better from Medicare as well as rethinking their own systems

[RDAQ @RuralDocsQ]

RDAQ president Dr Alex Dunn applauds announcement. Cooktown Hospital to get long awaited redevelopment We dialled up campaign for infrastructure & equity for 2020 election. Good results Biloela & Cooktown @RuralDocsQ will continue to be voice for Rural Qldrs healthcare.

[Michael Livingston @DrMLivingston]

Funny this same old drum being banged

Yet no one looks at us Livingston Medical

10 locations in rural and remote WA

37 000 sq km covered

90% of sites have a zero day wait

We cover MM6/7

We clearly have a proven solution but yet no one is listening and repeating the below over and over.

Bulk billing isn’t financially viable. If you’re going to target GPs then you should be targeting every other specialist in Australia.

States have the money but won’t spent it on proven solutions like ours.

27 billion to pharmacists
3 billion to general practice

Yet no one speak to us even though we are clearly experts in our field and successful at what we do.

@RogerCookMLA

[Dr Marian Dover @DoverMarian]

If you’re over 40yo, on average, you’ll need to see a GP 7x per year

In 2019–2020, there were 43 million Medicare claims for unreferred GP attendances for people aged 65 and over.

Let’s fund continuity and support Primary Care that supports us.
@RDA_Tas @Mark_Butler_MP

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

@sheena_byrom Increasing maternal age and BMI may be part of it. And lack of benefit in remaining pregnant past the “due date” perhaps

https://t.co/QOvjqzbU6U

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

@Rose_Marie_Holt @Imi_cycles CPR? They have finished that.

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

@seanluomdphd @Imi_cycles Sure hope you can. Don’t some of your medicines mess with that Q-T thingummybob? Some psychs in Oz are rumoured to want ECG, bloods and even physical exam before putting pen to prescription pad

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

Amazing work by our executive, management, project and comms people to bring this together.

[Rural Doctors Foundation @rural_doctors]

It's a wrap on day 1 of our exciting new initiative to provide GP services to rural health practitioners. A huge thank you to everyone who made our vision a reality.

[Rural Doctors Foundation @rural_doctors]

This ANZAC Day, we are reminded of the dedication and sacrifice made by those who keep us safe, and we thank those who have used their medical skills to save lives.

One such veteran is Dr Michael Clements, a rural doctor.
Read his story here: https://t.co/MFlTPMLoOe

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

@Ccc59846408 @QLDCountryGP Because a scan or fax is not a photograph, right? Be thankful @MetSthHealth is not asking for a fax of a signature…oh, wait…

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

@CallieBuddy @QLDCountryGP Health sector is the last bastion

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

@SEPfieldPatient @QLDCountryGP Qld mistrusts your GP and is afraid of you

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

@AndrewWalkom @LauraSunnyCoast @QLDCountryGP Fax!

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

@QLDCountryGP Yet @MetSthHealth tells us fax is unreliable and we all know email is insecure

Why can’t you routinely load to @MyHealthRec and make life easy? Or securely cc to #justaGP?

@AuDigitalHealth
@RACGPPresident
@ACRRM
@RuralDocsQ

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

https://t.co/y0fwkOxd59

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

@JillannFarmer Bureaucrazy doesn’t have to make sense.

It will be written in an Act or Regulations somewhere that it must be certified. And nowhere that it must make sense!

[Rural Doctors Foundation @rural_doctors]

Congratulations to Dr Suzanne Harrison awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for her services to rural medicine.

Sue is practicing GP in rural Victoria and a Director on the Rural Doctors Foundation Board.