Novo Nordisk used a National Press Club address to push for expanding access to GLP-1 receptor agonists for children with obesity. The company proposed that the federal government consider using these...
Queensland’s RACGP branch has lodged a pre-budget submission with the Queensland Government to fund a GP Disaster Preparedness Program. The package would provide grants of up to $40,000 for as many as...
Med-HELP, a federal debt-relief program launched in 2022, aims to attract doctors to rural and remote Australia by waiving or reducing their HECS debt. A fresh review shows the initiative is working f...
Novo Nordisk chief executive Mike Doustdar used a National Press Club address to urge broader PBS coverage of Ozempic for children with obesity. He framed expanded access as a way to accelerate early...
RACGP specialist Dr Tim Jones is urging urgent online marketing controls for unregistered peptide products after warnings that social media drives illegal backyard sales. He cites an 18-year-old who r...
A major systematic review published in The Lancet Psychiatry evaluated 54 randomised controlled trials from 1980 to 2025, involving 2,477 participants, to test whether medicinal cannabis benefits ment...
The rural town of Kimba in South Australia remains without a permanent GP three years after the council invested in a $1 million medical centre and two rent-free homes to attract a doctor. The Kimba D...
The 2024 RACGP Red Book, the first update in eight years, has been identified as missing four preconception care elements by researchers from the University of Queensland. The gaps include male precon...
The Northern Territory held its inaugural GPs@Parliament last week, organised by the RACGP NT faculty. General practitioners offered MPs health checks as they spoke one-on-one about general practice,...
RACGP welcomed a change to the rural WIP that alters how a doctor’s full-time equivalent is calculated. Department of Health, Disability and Ageing documents updated in December 2025 outline that FTE...
The Health Minister announced a nationwide pharmacist-led prescribing trial that will subsidise pharmacists to the same PBS-eligible level as GPs for oral contraceptives and some antibiotics from Janu...
The 2026 RACGP Hackathon kicked off in Sydney, bringing 51 participants across seven teams together for a three day sprint to address a primary care challenge. GPs collaborate with tech experts and en...
Australia will run a 12 month trial from January 2027 that lets concession card holders access pharmacy prescribed contraceptives and allows qualified pharmacists to treat uncomplicated UTIs without a...
RACGP led University of Origin analysis shows Monash University and James Cook University trained the most future GPs and rural generalists last year. Across 21 universities, 1226 graduates began gene...
The federal government will fund a nationwide pharmacist contraceptives trial. Federal health minister Mark Butler announced at the Australasian Pharmacy Professionals conference on the Gold Coast tha...
The South Australian branch of the Australian Medical Association, AMA SA, has outlined reforms to attract international medical graduates and strengthen the health system ahead of the state election....
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Tasmanian branch has urged the State Government to redirect funding from a planned expansion of a pharmacist prescribing pilot into embedding phar...
A Labor MP sent a targeted letter to a Victorian general practice, expressing disappointment that it is not operating as a fully bulk-billing clinic and urging a move to 100 per cent bulk-billing. The...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners welcomed reforms to the Workforce Incentive Program Rural Advanced Skills stream. The changes set a GP’s total FTE as solely the service they prov...
AHPRA is delivering a series of webinars to help GPs with every aspect of their registration. Topics include the regulation of students in health professions, how supervision works in practice, and na...
