Bulk-billing GP clinics will receive $25.3 million to establish up to six fully bulk-billing practices across the Central Coast, Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Hunter regions. The funding sits alongsid...
Australia's 2026 federal budget allocates $126.1 million over three years to implement a three-year-old child health check under the Thriving Kids plan. The move reinforces the central role of general...
The RACGP Foundation has launched a fresh funding round to back GP-led research focused on improving how medicines are used in general practice. The program pools $1.1 million for 2026 across Large an...
Australia’s 2026-27 Budget includes notable funding for three-year-old health checks and digital health upgrades. The government commits 126.1 million dollars to re-establish three-year-old health che...
On 12 May 2026 the Northern Territory Health Minister announced trained pharmacists can diagnose and manage 21 conditions without a GP visit. The scope includes asthma, weight management and initiatin...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has published a deep dive into digital general practice in the Australian Journal of General Practice. The issue brings together reflections on di...
New South Wales will enable pharmacists to initiate prescriptions for the contraceptive pill from 1 June. The policy is backed by the Minns Labor Government and around 60 NSW pharmacists are expected...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners welcomed 40 new Fellows at a Canberra ceremony, with the cohort including two Rural Generalists. The event, hosted by RACGP NSW & ACT, marked thei...
The government will inject $1.8 billion to cement Medicare urgent care centres as a permanent feature of Australia's health system. The move follows a shift in the RACGP position, with the College ann...
The RACGP will develop profession-led standards for nationally consistent urgent care as Medicare urgent care centres become a permanent feature of Australia’s health system. The move follows federal...
Urgent care clinics will become a permanent pillar of Medicare after the government announced a funding package worth $1.8 billion over five years from 2025-26, with ongoing funding above $525 million...
The World Health Organization validated Australia as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. The milestone follows years of community-led work, with trachoma prevalence in at-risk Abori...
The Northern Territory will trial the Single Employer Model to bolster general practice in rural areas. The program will start in June 2026 and run through December 2028, supporting up to 24 full-time...
An evaluation of GP and pharmacist experiences with the PBS 60-day dispensing measure shows uptake has been slower than hoped. The study analysed PBS dispensing claims from 1 September 2023 to 30 Apri...
Queensland GPs staged a pop-up flu vaccination clinic at Parliament House in Brisbane this week, led by RACGP Queensland and student-friendly by faculty chair Dr Cath Hester. A line-up of GPs offered...
The federal government will fund the RSV vaccine Arexvy under the National Immunisation Program for older Australians from 15 May. Eligibility expands to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a...
In Cairns, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners staged the year's first RACGP Fellowship ceremony in Queensland, welcoming 27 newly qualified specialist GPs into practice. The event w...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners conducted a regional Victoria tour that visited Ararat, Beaufort and Ballarat to meet local GPs, healthcare teams and community organisations. RAC...
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has added sexual misconduct findings to public registers for 107 practitioners in its first round of landmark reforms. Of these, 86 are cancelled pract...
AHPRA has begun permanently publishing sexual misconduct findings on practitioners’ public registrations. In the first tranche, 107 registrations were updated, with about 50 of the cases involving doc...
