ACRRM will start 370 GP registrars this training year, above its 320 funded places. It marks the third straight year of overfill for the college. The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is neg...
South Australia is shaping its policy debate ahead of the state election with a focus on general practitioner workforce and after hours care. The Liberal Party has pledged to remove payroll tax for GP...
Adelaide general practitioners are raising concerns about a surge in low dose iron supplements sold over the counter and online. Some products contain as little as 5 mg of iron, which clinicians say i...
From 1 January 2026 the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) no longer requires prior financial approval for selected health services delivered to Veteran Card holders. These items will be added to t...
Influenza activity surged in Australia in 2025 with more than 500,000 laboratory confirmed cases, up from about 365,000 the year before and 290,000 in 2023. In the first 15 days of 2026, the National...
The Commonwealth Fund released the 2025 Causes and Impacts of Burnout Among Primary Care Physicians in 10 Countries. It surveyed around 11 000 general practitioners across Australia, Canada, France, G...
Victoria expanded its Community Pharmacist Program to let pharmacists prescribe and dispense two hormonal contraceptives and an impetigo treatment. The change builds on a rollout that began last year,...
Parliamentary committees released their final report backing the Thriving Kids program, a $2 billion initiative set to start on 1 July 2026. The plan moves eligible children from the National Disabili...
Artificial intelligence tools are moving from pilot projects to day-to-day practice in Australian primary care. OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a platform that lets patients upload medical records...
The United States has launched the first oral GLP-1 weight loss medicine with the approval of an oral semaglutide pill, marketed as Wegovy, by the FDA in December 2025. It is now available by prescrip...
Victoria has expanded its Community Pharmacist Program, now marketed as Chemist Care Now, to broaden what pharmacists can provide without a prescription. The changes add two additional hormonal contra...
The Productivity Commission has released the final version of Delivering quality care more efficiently. It calls for stronger formal coordination between hospitals and Primary Health Networks. It want...
Therapeutic Guidelines released the final antibiotic update for 2025. It is the third update in 2025, following releases in March and September. The December update covers key areas such as perinatal...
Potentia Capital has acquired HotDoc for about 250 million dollars. The deal price sits just over eight times revenue and at least 30 times EBITDA. HotDoc runs a GP booking platform used by patients a...
A new report from the Department of Health highlights that smaller GP practices, especially those with fewer doctors, limited staff, or in lower socio-economic or rural areas, face more barriers to ac...
From 1 March 2026, GPs in Australia will be able to claim Medicare rebates for ECG services again. This reverses a decision made in 2020 that stopped funding for GPs to perform ECGs. The change means...
The number of general practices offering full bulk billing in Australia has more than doubled over the past year. According to the latest data from Cleanbill, 1007 clinics switched from mixed billing...
Since March 2025, the Australian government added several women’s health medications to the PBS, including treatments for endometriosis, menopause, and contraception. In the first nine months, over 1....
The Australian government will start reimbursing GPs and specialists equally for ECG services from March 2026. This change follows years of lobbying by the RACGP and other health groups. The move is b...
