Plan for Australians living with pain

By Marnie Banger
Updated June 17 2019 - 2:03pm, first published 1:57pm
Doctors will be encouraged to prescribe fewer drugs to deal with pain, instead ordering exercise.
Doctors will be encouraged to prescribe fewer drugs to deal with pain, instead ordering exercise.

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.

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