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The Department of Health Disability and Ageing has clarified there are no immediate plans to display individual GP fees on the Medical Costs Finder. This sits alongside new laws aimed at publishing no...

Four Corners highlighted a troubling pattern in Australian health care. A Melbourne gynaecologist, Simon Gordon, performed surgeries that removed ovaries and uteruses in dozens of young women who did...

Australia’s My Mirror released its 2025 Mental Health Review, using de-identified data from thousands of online psychology sessions. The findings show online therapy can lower distress levels, with so...

A large Australian study analysed GAHT uptake from 2013 to 2024 using the Person-Level Integrated Data Asset, linking Census data with Medicare records. It identified 32,241 people who began gender-af...

Victoria Police has reversed a change that placed the onus on GPs to assess police recruits. In July 2025 VicPol updated its recruitment process so GPs would decide if applicants were physically and m...

One Nation has floated a policy that requires new doctors to complete a period of regional or rural work before they can get a Medicare provider number. Without this number, doctors could not bulk-bil...

AHPRA is rethinking how it handles notifications and regulator intervention after reports about a high profile gynaecologist, Dr Simon Gordon, and allegations surrounding endometriosis surgery. Gordon...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is urging the federal government to establish an independent pricing authority to set Medicare rebates based on evidence, value and true cost of d...

The second interim evaluation of urgent care clinics in Australia shows nine success measures based on data from June 2023 to August 2025. It follows the first interim evaluation from March 2025. UCCs...

Denise Lyons leads the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association. She says prevention belongs in primary care. Nurses should work at their full scope. Funding lags behind practice. She compare...

Denise Lyons, a registered nurse and now President of the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA), is pushing to make prevention central in Australia’s primary care system. She argues...

Legislation before parliament would let the government publish more detailed specialist fee data on the Medical Costs Finder. The site cost 24 million to build and relies on doctors volunteering to up...

Dr Rod Jacobs, president of the Australia and New Zealand Hernia Society, calls on GPs to stop routinely ordering groin ultrasounds. He notes many scans are unnecessary or misinterpreted and push pati...

Roxanne Suwas, a Perth based practice owner and mentor, argues that calling GP visits free hides the true cost of running general practice. General practices aren’t government funded like hospitals. T...

A Queensland Supreme Court ruling favoured ophthalmologist Dr David Kitchen in his lawsuit against former Professional Services Review director Professor Julie Quinlivan. The judge found Quinlivan lia...

The Improving Choice and Transparency for Private Health Consumers Bill sets out plans to publish GP fees and bulk-billing rates by default on the Medical Costs Finder. The data would come from Medica...

From November 2025 the Australian government expanded the bulk-billing incentive for general practice. The changes extend a Medicare top-up to all patients who are bulk billed, not just concession-car...

Queensland faces a growing skin cancer care burden with a regional workforce gap. A Queensland team used supply, demand and needs based modelling to estimate the number of skin cancer clinicians and t...