Whakarongorau Aotearoa in New Zealand will develop an AI concierge triage and navigation platform to improve access to mental health and addictions support nationwide. The project will receive matchin...
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 Department of Veterans Affairs in Australia released detailed plans on how a substantial funding package will be spent to improve veterans’ health care. In the recent Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal...
NSW firefighters participated in a randomised trial to test a self-led SOLAR app. The SOLAR programme teaches trauma-informed, skills-based strategies for handling distress. It was originally delivere...
An international team conducted the DECAF trial to test if daily caffeinated coffee lowers the chance of recurrent atrial fibrillation after cardioversion. The multicentre randomized study enrolled 20...
Health NZ has detailed the Centre for Digital Modernisation of Health. Dr Lara Hopley will be the Chief Clinical Digital Modernisation Officer and Stephen Crombie will serve as Interim Centre Director...
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...
The Sparked program, led by CSIRO, aims to standardise health data sharing through national FHIR standards. It has delivered multiple implementation guides, e-requesting tools for pathology and imagin...
The Waiting Time Action Plan 2026 has been published by the Irish Department of Health and the HSE to cut waiting times for inpatient and outpatient care. It outlines six targets under three themes: r...
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...
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...
EQL has rolled out its digital musculoskeletal disorder platform, Phio, to more than 12 000 teachers across 147 Sydney Catholic Schools. The move targets early, digital-first access to tailored care a...
A large real world study in the United States analysed longitudinal medical claims from 2017 to 2024 to compare adults with atopic dermatitis who started a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor with those star...
A Dutch study examined 1085 adults with suspected food allergy who visited the allergology clinic at University Medical Centre Utrecht between 2018 and 2023. Participants were split into probable food...
Victoria will allow virtual emergency department clinicians to issue ADHD medication scripts for patients who already have a diagnosis and a current treatment plan. The script can cover 30 days to six...
