Aged Care

Senator Bridget McKenzie pressed the Department of Health and Aged Care over how aged care funding is prioritised for in home support. The debate centred on two 99 year olds in East Gippsland who face...

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia SA and NT branch is driving a new Australian framework for the Palliative Care Pharmacist. Helen Stone, the SA/NT State and Territory Manager, has drawn on GP p...

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 has finalised an overall A$220 billion hospital funding deal with the states and territories. A key aim was a A$2 billion fund to move more than 3,000 patients stranded in ho...

Voluntary assisted dying is now legally available in most of Australia and the landscape is shifting toward broader national alignment. The Australian Capital Territory enacted its VAD laws in Novembe...

National Cabinet agreed a $25 billion boost to public hospital funding over five years, lifting total hospital spending to about $220 billion from 2026–27 to 2030–31. The increase represents roughly a...

The Federal and state governments reached a deal at National Cabinet to boost public hospital funding by $25 billion over five years, from 2026–27 to 2030–31. The plan lifts the federal share of hospi...

Ageing Australia has submitted its view to the government’s review of the Aged Care Rules 2025. It calls for an overhaul to cut the reporting and compliance burden on providers. The peak body says the...

Australia is moving the Commonwealth Home Support Program into the Support at Home program. Two Senate inquiries are underway to scrutinise the transition and the ongoing SAH program. Public hearings...

The National Health Reform Agreement has been finalised after months of stalemate between the federal and state governments. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese agreed to additional hospital funding to se...

St Vincents Health Network Sydney has appointed Dr Chris Robinson as National Chief Medical Officer. He previously led as Medibank’s Chief Medical Officer for Customer, where he helped redesign mental...

Apple Watch will now offer hypertension alerts in Australia after the Therapeutic Goods Administration approved the feature in December. Apple expects more than one million people with undiagnosed hyp...

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner released a report on automated decision making across 23 government agencies. ADM means using software to automate a decision. The agencies were n...

Australia’s aged care assessments for at home support now rely on a computer algorithm. The system weights answers, scores them, and converts them into numbers that decide eligibility and funding leve...

Ten GPs were honoured in the Australia Day honours list. Nine current or former GPs feature across rural care, obstetrics, aged care and public health. Eight received the Medal of the Order of Austral...

Two changes to Australia’s home-based aged care funding have reshaped how people access care at home. Since November last year, an assessment algorithm now determines how much support is available und...

Dedalus ANZ has appointed Dr Vinod Seetharaman as Chief Medical Officer. He brings 23 years of medical and leadership experience. The move aligns with a push to transform care beyond treatment, emphas...

Galway medtech company Luminate Medical has secured a Series A of €18 million. The round is led by Lachy Groom and Artis Ventures with participation from Western Alliance Life Sciences, alongside exis...

Researchers in Sydney led an international effort through the Stroke and Cognition Consortium STROKOG to build a simple dementia risk calculator for stroke survivors. The tool is Excel based and uses...

Dementia Australia has launched a new round of Community Engagement grants to fund up to 12 projects that focus on creating dementia-friendly communities. The grants offer up to $10,000 each to commun...