Dear ASOS members, ASOS congratulates our member, colleague and friend Dr Charles New who has been promoted to Major General and appointed Surgeon General ADFR. Dr New has an extensive service background as a military surgeon. He has served as Treasurer on the federal AOA Board and is past Chairman [...]
The Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons (ASOS) has called on the Federal Government to abolish the practice whereby health funds are permitted to pay lower rebates to patients (who are health fund members) who choose doctors who are not part of a health fund preferred provider scheme. The practice known [...]
From all the team at ASOS we want to thank you for your support and wish a merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Vale Dr Bruce Dalway Shepherd, AM (26/10/1932 – 25/05/2018) Bruce Dalway Shepherd was born at the height of the Great Depression on 26/10/1932 in the NSW country town of Tamworth. It was a difficult birth. His mother Mary (a former trainee nurse at the Coast Hospital in Sydney) would have [...]
Dear members, ASOS has been monitoring all aspects of the health data industry. Apple has announced a major development that will allow all patients to control their individual health records from their iPhone. A complete model of how this will work is in the link, https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/06/apple-opens-health-records-api-to-developers/ How this development impacts [...]
Dear Doctors, friends and colleagues of the late Dr Bruce Shepherd AM A memorial service for Dr Shepherd will be held on Thursday 07/06/18 at St Marys Catholic Church, 42 Ridge Street, North Sydney @ 11.00am In lieu of flowers, the family has asked for a consideration of a donation [...]
The department is looking forward to receiving your feedback with regard to clarifying appropriate use of MBS items for spinal fusion. The email below invites feedback by 25 May. This email confirms an extension until Sunday 3 June, 2018. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Warner, Director, Medical [...]
Our friend, colleague and leader Dr Bruce Shepherd AM passed away at 7:30 this morning in Bowral, NSW. Dr Bruce Shepherd AM was the founder of The Australian Doctors' Fund (now Australian Doctors’ Federation), which, since its inception in 1990, has worked diligently to fulfil its purpose of "strengthening, defending and [...]
Dr Fritsch has put together the orthopaedics program for the Sydney Robotics Summit being held on Saturday 23 June. The summit is a multispecialty meeting focused on surgical robotic technology which has been organised by the Institute of Academic surgery at Royal Prince Alfred hospital. This year for the first [...]
The Medicare requirements for referrals to specialists and consultant physicians has been released by the Australian Medical Association which has been compiled to explain, in the simplest terms, the Medicare benefits rules for referrals and the implications of not adhering to them. 1. Referrals must be made in accordance with [...]
