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The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation has issued a bulletin stressing that pertussis is not solely a childhood disease and that older adults with chronic conditions face higher morbi...

GP training numbers are up at least 20% this year, yet the GP supervisor workforce remains under supported. A rare joint statement from the National Council of Primary Care Doctors urges governments t...

South Australia is piloting a coordinated push to raise flu vaccination rates. General practitioners joined SA Health officials as Health and Wellbeing Minister Blair Boyer and Chief Public Health Off...

Exhail, the duress platform from ORB Software, was relaunched last year and is now marketed nationally as a subscription-based service. The desktop tool provides a discreet on-screen duress button tha...

An online analysis from Cleanbill shows bulk-billing uptake accelerating, with the strongest gains in rural and remote clinics. The study measures changes in fully bulk-billing clinics across Modified...

Canberra has a new wave of GP training starts as 29 doctors begin the Australian General Practice Training program, marking a 26% rise from 2025. The national picture shows 1772 doctors in AGPT, up 19...

On 13 April 2026, RACGP's General Practice Mental Health Standards Collaboration launched the Specific Populations Resource Hub to help GPs deliver tailored mental health care. The hub includes five r...

Cleanbill released a geographic breakdown of self-reported bulk-billing data gathered between November and mid-December 2025, in the weeks after universal bulk billing became a requirement under the b...

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...

Researchers are calling for national reforms to permit telehealth for VAD consultations across Australia. A review published in the Australian Health Review analysed 230 articles and found telehealth...

Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration has moved to remove Andrographis paniculata from the list of permitted ingredients in listed medicines after a pattern of anaphylaxis reports. Andrographis...

InsideOut Institute's GP Hub has reached a new milestone with 6484 users nationwide, including 3541 GPs, less than two years after launch. The tool is designed to streamline eating disorder care in ge...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has opened expressions of interest for the 2027 RACGP Education Research Grants Program. The grants fund education research projects aimed at stre...

The RACGP has opened the 2026 Health of the Nation survey for general practice across Australia. Now in its 10th year, the exercise invites Fellowed members, vocationally registered GPs, CPD‑only part...

A Australia-first clinical practice guideline for youth acute mental health has been published in Australia. It was developed by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of Melbour...

New South Wales has begun free FluMist nasal spray vaccinations for eligible children aged 2 to 4, joining other states in a needle-free approach ahead of the 2026 flu season. The rollout was launched...

From 1 April 2026 the National Health Service made it mandatory for GPs to obtain advice from a consultant or senior clinician before referring patients to hospital specialists. The Advice and Guidanc...

The Northern Territory Government is advancing a plan announced in 2024 to let trained pharmacists autonomously prescribe for 21 conditions. As the expansion progresses, GPs in the NT are being consul...

Health Minister Mark Butler is backing local MPs who have sent letters urging general practices to switch to universal bulk billing. The move is part of a broader push to secure more bulk-billed servi...