Federal Government

The Australian Society of Ophthalmologists (ASO) has launched a petition for the Federal Government to establish a private health commission....

Optometry Australia (OA) is renewing its call for the Federal Government to reinstate Medicare-subsidised eye exams every two years for...

Practitioner title protection and the “unnecessarily complex” process to make reforms around issues like drug prescribing are among longstanding issues...

The Federal Government is implementing a controversial recommendation from the taskforce review into ophthalmology Medicare items that will mean macular...

Improving access to new health technologies, tackling inequity, and making Health Technology Assessment (HTA) processes easier for consumers and clinicians...

Australians with Fabry disease, a rare genetic condition that can lead to alterations in the eye and life-threatening complications, now...

Orthoptics Australia president A/PROF AMANDA FRENCH reviews the 2024-25 Federal Budget and what it means to the allied health sector....

Funding to implement a raft of recommendations from a review of optometry Medicare items – most notably an additional visual...

Funding to implement most of the recommendations from a major review of optometry Medicare items, including greater coverage for visual...

Optometry services have been subsidised by the Australian Government since Medicare (then Medibank) was first introduced in 1975. This has...