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Medicare data show GP home visits have dropped 85 percent over three decades, from almost four million in 1994 to under half a million in 2024. The analysis, led by Associate Professor Joel Rhee of th...

March 2026 brings changes to My Health Record that let patients see limb X-ray results the moment they are uploaded. Other imaging tests such as CT, MRI, PET, ultrasound and torso scans become viewabl...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners released results from the 2026.1 cycle for the Applied Knowledge Test and the Key Feature Problem. In January, over 2,200 candidates sat the two e...

Seniru Mudannayake, president of the Australian Medical Students Association, outlined the toll of placement poverty on medical students. He described juggling study with part time work to cover rent...

The federal government has begun rolling out a set of incentives for GP registrars this semester. Registrars starting community-based training can access a salary incentive of up to 30,000, paid in in...

Dr Ramya Raman’s GP opinion published on newsGP on 11 March 2026 argues that women in medicine face structural barriers rather than dramatic obstacles. She uses personal experiences to illustrate how...

From July, adults in Victoria can obtain the oral contraceptive pill from about 850 participating pharmacies without a GP script. Pharmacist consultations will be free, and patients still cover the me...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners backs ending Medicare rebate cheques but objects to a 90 day gap-only payment delay in the proposed electronic system. The government plans to ret...

An updated analysis from RACGP and ACRRM tracks where medical graduates begin GP training in 2025. The dataset covers 1226 GPs-in-training who commenced the Australian GP Training pathway that year. M...

The RACGP has pushed back on the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing’s proposed replacement for the Pay Doctor via Claimant scheme. A December consultation paper outlines a gap only payment mo...

From July, Victorians aged 18 and over can obtain the oral contraceptive pill from 850 participating pharmacies without a prescription or direct GP input, under the Chemist Care Now program. The polic...

A coalition of telehealth operators and insurers has released a self-published set of National Telehealth Standards. The 34 page document outlines expectations around clinical governance, patient safe...

The 2025 Digital Health Festival will be held in Melbourne on 20–21 May, gathering RACGP leaders and hundreds of health tech professionals to discuss transforming care through stronger GP digital conn...

Emerging Minds and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners have teamed up to offer free accredited training for GPs on child mental health. The programme includes an assessment toolkit,...

Consultmed has embedded a social prescribing feature into its national digital referral platform, enabling clinicians to issue digital social prescriptions for non-clinical services within their stand...

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia reportedly paid up to 110000 per year for a seat at a Canberra birthday dinner for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers. The event doubled...

A new Single Employer Model SEM GP training trial has launched in Charleville, a rural Queensland town about 700 kilometres west of Brisbane. Led by an Aboriginal community controlled health organisat...

The Victorian Department of Health has launched a script-free, doctor-free program that lets pharmacists initiate prescriptions for the oral contraceptive pill. From July, women over 18 can access the...

RACGP has put forward the Pathways to Rural budget proposal. It would fund metropolitan GPs to work in rural practices for four weeks each year to build ongoing relationships with patients and communi...

The Australian government has rolled out a series of March MBS updates. Key changes include new nationwide patient end support items that let GPs provide in person help during video sessions with non...