The New Zealand College of General Practitioners released the Your Work Counts study, analysing 566 NZ GPs. It shows 56% of a GP’s time is spent in patient consultations, while 31% is non-contact clin...
Denise Lyons, a registered nurse and now President of the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA), is pushing to make prevention central in Australia’s primary care system. She argues...
Medibank has disclosed the latest set of results after buying Better Medical, expanding its general practice footprint in Australia. The November deal valued at 163.5 million added 61 GP practices to...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is boosting GP led research visibility with its GP Research Noticeboard. The hub promotes general practice research projects and helps recruit acr...
The US administration launched RealFood.gov to publish Robert F Kennedy Jr’s dietary guidelines and to power public questions about real food with Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot. Grok is presented as a t...
At the IHCA FutureCare 2026 conference, Prof Brian Pickering of Mayo Clinic urged that Irelands national EHR needs a built in cognitive layer. He warned that piling data into the system without guidin...
A large Danish registry study followed 876 805 women aged 45 and over for a median 14.3 years, tracking systemic menopausal hormone therapy prescriptions and deaths. About 11.9% filled at least one MH...
The ARC Hub for ICT has officially launched at Technological University Dublin. The hub aims to speed up turning cutting edge ICT and AI research into real world solutions that deliver economic and so...
An umbrella review pooled data from five systematic reviews (8631 participants) and 28 randomised trials (4360 participants) up to November 2025 to evaluate exercise therapy for osteoarthritis across...
Grahame Grieve, the HL7 leader and creator of FHIR, spoke on PULSE the Podcast about the central role of data sharing in modern health technology. He argues the FHIR community must stay open and trust...
Western Australia is expanding its Enhanced Access Community Pharmacy Pilot (EACPP) with 40 additional pharmacists who will train to diagnose and treat simple conditions. The move comes after the gove...
UNSW Sydney unveiled a 35 million AUD investment to accelerate research commercialisation and spinout creation. The package splits into a 25 million AUD Pre-Seed Fund for early-stage spinouts and a 10...
Roxanne Suwas, a Perth based practice owner and mentor, argues that calling GP visits free hides the true cost of running general practice. General practices aren’t government funded like hospitals. T...
A world-first scoping review led by researchers at the University of Adelaide finds no formal guidelines for silent trials of AI tools in health clinics. Silent trials test AI in the intended setting...
Wellumio, a New Zealand based medical technology company, has secured 7.28 million dollars in the first close of its pre-Series A funding round. The funds will push Axana, a portable neuroimaging syst...
The Australian Medical Association has published a research report focused on digital interoperability in health care. It outlines that current health IT systems are isolated and incompatible, causing...
Pertussis cases have surged in Australia, reaching levels not seen in 35 years. For 2024, Australia recorded 57,257 pertussis cases, and the combined total for 2024–2025 reached 82,530, the highest si...
South Australia held a pre election debate on health policy that brought together the Labor government and the Liberal opposition. The event was organised by AMA SA ahead of the March state election a...
A large, multi-country study that includes Australian data shows short-term exposure to bushfire smoke, measured as wildfire-specific PM2.5, is linked to more emergency department visits for mental he...
A Cochrane Collaboration review pooled data from 22 randomized trials in overweight or obese adults to test whether intermittent fasting delivers better weight loss, quality of life or safety outcomes...
