Collection description
This collection contains links to all the final reports, findings and recommendations agreed by the MBS Review Taskforce across all specialties as part of the MBS Review.
These documents contain almost 1,400 recommendations that the taskforce provided to the Australian Government for its consideration and response.
Taskforce recommendations are expressed in the following formats:
- Taskforce final reports are available for most specialties. These provide detailed recommendations and rationales.
- Taskforce-endorsed reports contain recommendations and agreed rationales, when the taskforce endorsed clinical committee reports (for example, Anaesthesia).
- Taskforce findings are provided for most specialties. These provide a summary of the recommendations agreed by the taskforce.
- Taskforce recommendations were provided for Primary Care and Telehealth. These list taskforce recommendations, as well as varying degrees of supporting information (including rationale).
Overarching taskforce reports
Obsolete items
Taskforce recommendations by clinical area
Anaesthesia Clinical Committee
Blood Products Working Group
Cardiac Services Clinical Committee
Cleft Dental Services – Category 7 Clinical Committee
Colorectal Surgery Clinical Committee
Consumer Panel Clinical Committee
Dermatology, Allergy and Immunology Clinical Committee
Diagnostic Imaging Clinical Committee
Diagnostic Medicine Clinical Committee
Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery Clinical Committee
Eating Disorders Working Group
Endocrinology Clinical Committee
Gastroenterology Clinical Committee
General Surgery
Gynaecology Clinical Committee
Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine Clinical Committee
Neurosurgery and Neurology Clinical Committee
Obstetrics Clinical Committee
Oncology Clinical Committee
Ophthalmology Clinical Committee
Optometry Clinical Committee
Orthopaedic Clinical Committee
Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery Clinical Committee
Paediatric Surgery Clinical Committee
Pain Management Clinical Committee
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Clinical Committee
Principles and Rules Committee
Primary Care – overarching reports
Primary Care – clinical committee and reference groups reports
Psychiatry Clinical Committee
Renal Medicine Clinical Committee
Specialist and Consultant Physician Consultation Clinical Committee
Spinal Surgery Clinical Committee
Telehealth
Thoracic Medicine Clinical Committee
Thoracic Surgery Clinical Committee
Urgent After-Hours Primary Care Services funded by the MBS
Urology
Vascular Clinical Committee
Wound Management Working Group
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