Dr Steph Davis, chief health officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, outlines reforms aimed at making veterans entitlements easier to access. The changes due to take effect in July will tighten...
Australia's RSV immunisation program has delivered a dramatic early result, cutting newborn hospital admissions by 43.8 per cent in the first year for babies under three months. The hybrid RSV Materna...
Cohealth faced a blocked release of its review summary just minutes before it was due to be public. The review carries 13 recommendations directed at the federal government, state government and Cohea...
The RACGP has issued a position statement on telehealth-only services, setting out safeguards to protect patient care. It requires these services to share information with the patient’s usual GP, and...
Six passengers from the MV Hondius were repatriated to Australia and placed in quarantine near Perth. All were symptom-free and tested negative before boarding, and they will be tested for hantavirus...
AI scribes in Australian general practice are in a phase of rapid, uneven uptake. A Healthed/The Medical Republic survey of 1,535 GPs found 18.7% personally use an AI scribe for consultations, while 8...
The Pharmacy Board of Australia is seeking public input on a proposed registration-level endorsement that would allow pharmacist prescribing. The consultation runs until 15 June, and the RACGP plans t...
On 14 May 2026 the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners released a position statement on telehealth only care. It argues telehealth should not replace routine in person care and that cons...
A global synthesis published in BMC Public Health shows point-of-care testing (PoCT) delivers benefits beyond the clinic. Flinders University researchers combined 13 studies from multiple countries, i...
The federal budget allocates 25.3 million dollars to establish six fully bulk billing GP clinics in Newcastle, Central Coast, Lake Macquarie and Lower Hunter in New South Wales. The clinics will compe...
A Healthed/HSD survey of 1,535 Australian GPs shows 18.7% personally use an AI scribe in consultations, while 81.3% do not. Among non-users, around one in three are seriously considering adopting. Thi...
Bulk-billing GP clinics will receive $25.3 million to establish up to six fully bulk-billing practices across the Central Coast, Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Hunter regions. The funding sits alongsid...
Older Australians who keep a regular GP are less likely to end up in hospital or present to emergency departments. A national study of more than 120,000 Australians aged 65 and older, conducted 2016–1...
General practice is being reshaped as routine tasks move to alternatives. Urgent care centres enable same‑day access, while pharmacists and nurse practitioners are expanding their roles and digital to...
In May 2026 a national consensus statement on frailty calls for annual screening for all Australians aged over 65. The 19 statements were published in The Medical Journal of Australia and supported by...
Australia's 2026 federal budget allocates $126.1 million over three years to implement a three-year-old child health check under the Thriving Kids plan. The move reinforces the central role of general...
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has extended the Other Medical Practitioners Extension Program (OMPEP) to preserve higher GP Medicare rebates for non-vocationally registered doctors in...
The RACGP Foundation has launched a fresh funding round to back GP-led research focused on improving how medicines are used in general practice. The program pools $1.1 million for 2026 across Large an...
