More than $61.4 million was paid to general practices in the first Bulk Billing Practice Incentive Program round. Payments went to 2,949 practices out of 3,251 registered, covering November 1 to Decem...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners reports a record start to GP training in 2026. A total of 1772 doctors will begin general practice training this year. Of them, 161 will spend at...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) announced a series of events and initiatives in March and May that focus on gender equality, men’s health and digital health in primary ca...
The 2025 National Registrar Survey shows the RACGP training program reaching historic highs in Australia. About 1225 registrars responded to the confidential survey, conducted for the Department of He...
The Australian government announced a five-year GP training contract worth more than 1 billion dollars. Training will stay under the RACGP and ACRRM, with a split of 71 to RACGP and 29 to ACRRM, spe...
The Federal Government has signed a five-year Australian General Practice Training grant agreement for 2026–30. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) will receive 751.3 million...
The Productivity Commission released the 2026 Report on Government Services, showing total government spend on general practice rose to 13.4 billion dollars in 2024 25, up from 12.7 billion in 2023 24...
Private Healthcare Australia released a report based on a survey of more than 4,000 Australians, including about 2,300 who had recently been referred to a non-GP specialist. The findings show 30% have...
World Cancer Day on 4 February 2026 spotlights the push for person centred cancer care. The campaign, led by the Union for International Cancer Control, emphasises seeing the patient as a whole person...
GPs in Australia are stepping up to counter medical misinformation online. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and other health voices are warning patients about misleading o...
Australia’s Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs will run a wide review of how recent Medicare reforms affect rural primary care. The inquiry will assess the 1 November 2025 changes...
The Australian government will create a National Medicines Record within My Health Record. All prescribers will be required to record medicines related information, including drugs dispensed via teleh...
Australia is moving to a national medicines record that ties scripts to the My Health Record. Health minister Mark Butler announced two major reforms after a preventable overdose death: online telehea...
The federal government has announced reforms to create a National Medicines Record. This will give patients, prescribers and pharmacists a complete medicines history across digital health tools. As a...
The Therapeutic Goods Administration released its Compliance Principles for 2026–27. It sets out how the agency will monitor and enforce rules for therapeutic goods. The approach is designed to be agi...
ChatGPT Health was launched in early January 2026. It allows patients to upload medical records for AI analysis and uses the data to interpret recent test results, help patients prepare for appointmen...
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing released plans to phase out Medicare rebate cheques by July 2028 and opened a public consultation on the changes. Under the proposal, government cheques...
A Commonwealth Fund global survey of nearly 11,000 GPs across 10 countries, including Australia, shows burnout is high among Australian clinicians. In Australia, 32% of GPs report burnout, with admini...
The Australian government will start reimbursing GPs and specialists equally for ECG services from March 2026. This change follows years of lobbying by the RACGP and other health groups. The move is b...
