Resources

The AMA - Winning for General Practice

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is the peak health advocacy organisation in Australia. The AMA advances the professional interests of doctors and the health of the community. The AMA represents more than 28,000 doctors and is the public face of Australian medicine.

The AMA - Winning for General Practice (pdf file)

Taxation ruling and guide - Service Trust

Taxation Ruling TR 2006

Income tax: deductibility of service fees paid to associated service entities: Phillips arrangements (pdf file)

Your service entity arrangements - A guide to help you ensure your business is claiming only deductible service fees and charges for your service entity arrangements. (pdf file)

Treatment of Work Related Injury and Illness

The Medical Profession and the Treatment of Work Related Injury and Illness

Endorsed by: The Australian Medical Association Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Division of General Practice August 2000.

View/download from the website of Work Cover Tasmania. (126KB pdf)

Refugee health care

Go to the website of Health and Human Services to view some useful pages:

Multicultural health (including the non-medical version of the refugee health guide)
Extranet - restricted sites with information for immunisation providers, environmental officers and medical practitioners (You will need a username and password to access this part of the site.)

Popular asthma management chart re-launched

On 9 May 2005 the National Asthma Council of Australia together with Merck Sharpe and Dohme released a new version of their popular patient resource.

Read the accompanying media release. (Microsoft Word document)

View the poster (pdf file)

Legal

Review of the Law of Negligence - Final Report - September 2002 (1.2MB pdf file)