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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine has lodged its 2026 pre budget submission, urging the government to fund more rural generalist training places. It asks for 36 million dollars over...

UNSW Sydney’s National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre reports an accelerating rise in harm from gamma-hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, in Australia. While overall use remains low compared with drugs like MD...

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...

Western Australia is expanding its general practice training with a record 251 registrars starting the Australian General Practice Training program. The cohort is 28.1% larger than last year’s 194 reg...

The Australian Pharmacy Council is inviting feedback on the Accreditation Standards for Pharmacy Programs (2020). The move fits a five year cycle that aligns with the new Pharmacist Capability Framewo...

More than 1,200 general practice and rural generalist registrars took part in the 2025 GP national registrar survey. The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing released the results, showing train...

Memory concerns are a growing issue in Australian general practice. More patients present with changes in memory or thinking but do not meet dementia criteria, making early signs like subjective cogni...

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...

A systematic review in JAMA Network looked at melatonin use in young children across 19 studies. Melatonin prescribing has grown globally, with some studies showing up to a 500% rise. There is little...

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...

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs released a quick guide to help general practitioners understand item numbers when treating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander veterans. The document maps the ava...

Victoria's government announced that the Virtual Emergency Department will begin offering one-off ADHD prescription refills, including Schedule 8 stimulants, from September. The change aims to reduce...

Australia's MBS Review Advisory Committee has released its final findings on long-acting reversible contraception. It says endorsed midwives can access Medicare rebates for contraception related LARC...

A ten year analysis of AHPRA records from 2012 to 2022 looked at 112 677 doctors. One percent had at least one health impairment notification, equal to 1 732 cases. Substance misuse accounted for 38 p...

The Victorian Government plans ADHD care through telehealth via the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department. It would let patients receive up to six months of stimulant medication without a GP or psych...

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...

The Australian federal government has unveiled plans to reintroduce a Medicare funded development check for early childhood. It would be the first such item since the Healthy Kids Check ceased in 2014...