Telehealth and its various policy and political ramifications was back in the news this week, with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) again changing its policy position on MBS funding of primary care telehealth, despite previous lobbying efforts to the contrary.

We’ve been critical of the changing position of the college on Medicare-funded telehealth and its fellow travellers at the AMA in the past, but this week we saw a triple backflip with pike as Omicron swept through the land. We have witnessed the medical fraternity going from dead set against telehealth in primary care to agreeing it is essential in a pandemic, but all of this is conditional it seems on doctors’ income not being affected.