10 October 2019 Malaysia Doctors Defend RM80 Fee For Complex JPJ Medical Exam The new medical exam is eight pages long, twice the length of the old form.
10 October 2019 Malaysia RM80 Medical Exam Fee Is CSR, MMA Says The doctors’ group actually proposed RM120 initially.
27 September 2019 Malaysia Pharmacists Prescribing Legal Trouble By ‘Playing Doctor’ Many patients treated in pharmacies for non-communicable and skin diseases end up in hospital.
10 September 2019 Malaysia Why Malaysian GPs Are Under Threat, Unequipped, Underpaid Low fees, doctor-hopping, insurance schemes and MCOs, outdated computer systems, and no GP training or group practices.
19 August 2019 Malaysia ‘In 15 Years As GP, Patients Hardly Ask For Prescriptions’ MPCAM says GP clinics are run by senior doctors who rarely make errors in prescribing medicine.
16 August 2019 Opinion Time To Deregulate Doctors’ Professional Fees The fee schedules under the PHFSA controlling GPs’ and specialists’ consultation fees should be abolished.
2 August 2019 Malaysia Government Council Moots Alternatives To Raising Clinic GP Fees NACCOL suggested giving general practitioners tax rebates, offering them government buildings for rent, and shrinking their electricity bill.
3 July 2019 Malaysia Dzulkefly: Only 13pc Clinics Shuttered Over Economic Problems The health minister also acknowledged that private clinic GPs were simply seeking a harmonisation of their consultation fees.
26 June 2019 Malaysia Pharmacists: How Will Government Ensure Patients Get Prescriptions? MPS says the onus should be on GPs to give prescriptions, not on patients to ask for them.
30 May 2019 Malaysia Over 1,000 GPs Register For Minister’s Town Hall Discussion will centre on GP fees which have remained stagnant since 1992.