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The Strengthening Medicare Taskforce Report explored critical areas for government action to redesign primary care as the core of an effective, modern health system. The report recommended that governments work together to review the barriers and incentives for primary healthcare professionals working within their full scope of practice.

Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce, led by Professor Mark Cormack, looked at the available evidence about health professionals’ ability to deliver on their full scope of practice in primary care.

The review identified opportunities to remove the barriers stopping health professionals from working to their full scope of practice. It also drew on examples of multidisciplinary teams where members are working to their full scope of practice to deliver best-practice primary care.

Here, Mark will present some of those barriers and opportunities for health professionals to work at their full scope of practice.