Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jun 2019
Plan for Australians living with pain
17 June 2019 - Australians living with chronic pain would have access to up to 20 Medicare-funded services each year to help manage the condition under a new national strategy.
The plan also calls for a new pain medicine certificate that would encourage doctors to prescribe fewer drugs to deal with pain, instead ordering exercise and psychological management strategies
Doctors could get the certificate through six months of study, while a new website would be launched to educate people more broadly about managing pain without drugs.
