Bringing health economics to the table

Leesa Chesser is a health economist at heart.

At university Leesa trained in health administration and health economics and worked in hospitals before moving into politics.

Physiotherapists, podiatrists and other allied health practitioners may practise any of the following forms of acupuncture: traditional acupuncture, Western acupuncture and dry needling.

Who would benefit the most from attending ‘Mental Health Physiotherapy Level 1’?

All physiotherapists would benefit from undertaking the Level 1 course.

Parental leave eligibility

According to the National Employment Standards, an employee will be eligible for unpaid parental leave if they:

Though the detail is thin on the ground, Labor’s pre-election promise to establish Medicare-funded clinics for semi-urgent care to help clear the decks in hospital emergency departments has created much discussion and speculation.

In 2020–21, 47 per cent of presentations to emergency departments—just over 4 million visits across Australia—were classified as either semi-urgent or non-urgent, meaning they could have been addressed outside a hospital.

What is the Code of conduct?

The shared Code of conduct sets out the National Boards’ expectations of professional behaviour and conduct for practitioners registered in 12 professions, including physiotherapists.

These expectations promote safe and effective care and help protect the public.

The National Boards use the code to evaluate practitioners’ conduct.

Addressing a major conference on mental health, a keynote speaker asked attendees staying at the hotel venue if they had noticed the customer feedback form on the bureau in each guestroom.

Most had.

The APA was joined there by representatives of all 31 Primary Health Networks, Consumers Health Forum of Australia members, GPs, influencers, providers, allied health representatives and other industry leaders.

The main objective for the Leaders Summit was to affirm key priorities from the 10-year Primary Health Care Plan and develop a plan for action as part of an incoming health minister’s brief.

Joelene Gathercole APAM, APA Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist

Mother of two, Traralgon, Victoria

In hindsight, setting up her private practice nine years ago allowed Joelene Gathercole to lay the foundations and create a flexible career to start a family.

Why are we feeling this way? 

Working through a pandemic, practitioners have become all too familiar with staff shortages due to COVID-19 sickness and isolation periods for staff and their families.