General practitioner 

Your MIPS membership will be under this category if you hold specialist registration in General Practice with Ahpra and you undertake treatments, procedures, or practice (‘activities’) most GPs commonly undertake including but not limited to: 

• acupuncture, including laser acupuncture
• after hours deputising services
• allergy testing/ desensitisation program
• arterial blood gas estimations
• blood transfusions
• exercise electrocardiogram (ECG) - with appropriate resuscitation facilities
• external auditory canal syringing
• eyelid – excision/curettage of chalazion
• foreign bodies, including superficial corneal and aural removal
• fracture treatment not requiring reduction or anaesthesia
• hormonal contraceptive implant insertion and removal 
• intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD) insertion and removal 
• iron infusion
• local anaesthesia, including digital nerve blocks but excluding regional blocks
• lumbar puncture excluding administration of spinal or epidural anaesthesia 
• nosebleed electrocautery
• peripheral joint aspiration and/or intra-articular injections, excluding spine
• post-mortems
• proctoscopy/sigmoidoscopy (without biopsy)
• shared antenatal care in consultation with a hospital, specialist obstetrician or GP obstetrician where you are not involved in the induction or management of labour or delivery of the infant
• simple closed joint dislocation reduction
• skin flaps and grafts, limited to:
  • single-stage skin flaps on the face (including nose, eyelids, eyebrows and ears) where the diameter of the lesion prior to excision, including the margin to be excised, is 15mm or less
• skin flaps and skin grafts excluding full thickness grafts (split/partial only) on any location other than the face (including scalp, neck, trunk, limbs, digits) where clinically appropriate and where the diameter of the lesion prior to excision, including the margin to be excised, is 50mm or less. Note that full thickness grafts are excluded under this category on any part of the body.
• skin lesions biopsy, including punch biopsies
• superficial abscess incision and drainage
• superficial lacerations of skin and subcutaneous tissue repair
• superficial skin lesion cautery and cryotherapy
• superficial skin lesion, tumour, and cyst removal
• surgical assistance
• thrombosed external haemorrhoids drainage
• toenail avulsion, including wedge resection, excluding total removal of nail bed  
• urinary catheter insertion 
• venepuncture and simple insertions of Intravenous (IV) lines/IV drug therapy
• voluntary assisted dying (VAD) medication administration in accordance with relevant legislation.

This list is not exhaustive. 

You require an endorsement if you undertake any ‘Minor cosmetic services’ as defined by MIPS in the Member Handbook. The ‘GP non-procedural’ category excludes cover for the following practice where you are not indemnified by your employer:

• Activities listed under GP procedural
• Administering and monitoring sedation for procedures such as (but not limited to) gastroscopy and colonoscopy
• Obstetric services other than shared antenatal care
• General anaesthesia, regional anaesthesia, or intravenous/intravascular sedation. 

Your MIPS membership will be under this category if you hold general registration or specialist registration in General Practice with Ahpra and you perform procedures not covered under the non-procedural category definition and/or procedures usually performed under regional or general anaesthesia, sedation, or neurolept-analgesia. This category should be selected even if such procedures are performed without anaesthesia.

Activities include:

• accident and emergency activities undertaken in rural and remote settings
• arterial line insertion
• bronchoscopy
• chest tube/drains
• colposcopy
• hyperbaric medicine
• intravenous (IV) sedation for medical and dental procedures using narcotic/benzodiazepine combinations (contact MIPS for cover for other sedatives)
• male circumcision
• minor general surgical procedures (e.g. haemorrhoidectomy by banding or excision, and hernia repairs)
• regional anaesthesia excluding spinal, or epidural
• skin flaps and grafts, including full thickness grafts 
• termination of pregnancy (up to 20 weeks)
• uterine dilation and curettage (D&C)
• vasectomy
• varicose veins sclerotherapy. 

This category also includes cover for all activities listed in ‘GP non-procedural’ category. This list is not exhaustive.

You require an endorsement if you undertake any ‘Minor cosmetic services’ as defined by MIPS in the Member Handbook. The ‘GP procedural category’ excludes cover for the following activities where you are not indemnified by your employer:

• Obstetric services other than shared antenatal care
• Administration of sedative muscle relaxant or anaesthesia agents such as propofol
• Neurosurgery, bariatric surgery, and spinal surgery.

Your MIPS membership will be under this category if you hold a Diploma of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (DRANZCOG) or equivalent, or you hold Joint Consultative Committee on Anaesthesia (JCCA) or equivalent.

Activities include:

• Administering agents other than narcotic/benzodiazepine combinations
• General anaesthesia
• Pain medicine within individual scope of training, qualification, and experience, including spinal cord stimulator implantation via open partial or total laminectomy
• Private obstetric services beyond shared antenatal care in a healthcare facility
• Regional anaesthesia (beyond digital blocks)
• Spinal or epidural anaesthesia.

This category also includes cover for all activities listed in the ‘GP procedural’ and ‘GP non-procedural’ categories. This list is not exhaustive.

If you are training and undertaking unsupervised obstetrics or anaesthetic services, and you are not indemnified by your employer for those services, contact MIPS so we can advise on the right cover.

You require an endorsement if you any ‘Minor cosmetic services’ as defined by MIPS in the Member Handbook.

The ‘GP procedural including anaesthetics and/or obstetrics’ category excludes cover for any planned involvement in home births not indemnified by your employer.