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10 July 2026
New Medicare Mental Health Check In service now available for patients
Medicare Mental Health Check In Medicare Mental Health Check In is a new digital service that offers free evidence-based and confidential support to help people…
General practice
10 July 2026
Assignment of benefits changes – latest update
From 1 July 2026, updated requirements apply for assigning Medicare benefits when a service is bulk billed. Assignment of benefit is the process where a…
Assignment of benefit
06 July 2026
Celebrating NAIDOC Week 2026: 50 Years of Deadly
NAIDOC Week is held annually in July and is a national celebration of Australia’s First Nations peoples, histories and cultures—the oldest, continuous living cultures on…
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
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25 November 2024
POLAR Tip – MyMedicare Registration
Did you know that the POLAR Clinic Summary Report includes a MyMedicare registration filter? To use this filter, simply add your patients’ MyMedicare registration details…
Digital health
25 November 2024
Services Australia Update – Changes to Organisation Register and keeping your practice accreditation details current
Services Australia – Updates to the Organisation Register in December Services Australia has advised there will be a system release for the Organisation Register on…
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25 November 2024
MyMedicare Registration News
MyMedicare Registration update MyMedicare registrations continue to increase, particularly general practice-led registrations. As of 6 November 2024, 2,126,435 patients, 6,329 general practices and ~47,000 provider…
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22 November 2024
Celebrating excellence at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards 2024
The Victorian Public Healthcare Awards took place this week, and we are thrilled to congratulate all the 2024 winners. These awards recognise leadership and excellence…
Commissioned services
19 November 2024
World COPD Day 2024: Empowering Healthcare Providers with Best-Practice Standards
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) affects 1 in 13 Australians aged 40 and over, yet half of them don’t know they have it. Alarmingly, Indigenous…
General practice
13 November 2024
Unveiling Our Vision: EMPHN’s Strategic Plan 2025-2028
EMPHN proudly hosted the launch of our ambitious Strategic Plan.
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13 November 2024
New tender opportunity: Care Navigators Program
EMPHN wishes to advise of a new tender opportunity in our catchment.
Events
11 November 2024
Health Assessments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (MBS Item 715)
Health Koori Kids is a service for Aboriginal children aged 0-17 years who are at risk of entering or are in out-of-home care. The service…
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
11 November 2024
Changes to accessing vapes in Australia from 1 October 2024
Earlier this year the laws on vaping changed in Australia to protect the community from the harms of vaping and nicotine dependence. In Australia, vapes…
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