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,...
After the holidays a fringe wellness pitch hit the public eye. Mary Madeiras, who describes herself as a certified advanced Akashic Records practitioner, has published The Akashic Way: Living Through...
The Department of Health and Disability Ageing has opened a public consultation on a modernised gap billing system for Australian GPs. From July 1, 2028, providers would submit electronic Medicare cla...
New Zealand’s Pae Ora reforms began in 2022, reshaping the health system by replacing 20 district health boards with Health New Zealand and creating a Māori Health Authority to embed Treaty-based gove...
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...
On TikTok and Instagram a trend called oatzempic has taken off. People blend oats with water or juice and call it a natural alternative to Ozempic for weight loss. There is no standard recipe. Common...
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 Thriving Kids initiative has been reinforced by the release of the House of Representatives Standing Committee report into No child left behind. The inquiry was led by paediatrician Dr Mike Freela...
Australia's Department of Health Disability and Ageing commissioned a Medicare Mental Health Check In and St Vincents operates the service, which opened on 1 January. The initial offering is a public...
South Australia will vote on March 21, with all 47 lower house seats decided in single member districts and 11 of 22 upper house seats chosen under proportional representation with preferences. In 202...
In Saskatchewan, a remote nursing station uses a robotic arm to guide ultrasound while a technologist in Saskatoon operates the device from a distance. The system pairs robotic ultrasound with Teladoc...
The Medical Technology Association of Australia joins the Trade Diversification Network, part of Austrade's Accessing New Markets Initiative. The goal is to help Australian MedTech firms enter fast-gr...
ManageMyHealth, a trans-Tasman patient portal, was hacked by the ransomware gang Kazu on 30 December 2025. Roughly 125,000 of its 1.8 million users were affected. The breach involved patient documents...
A satirical forecast from Professor Candid sets out what 2026 might feel like for Australian general practice. Published by Medical Republic, it doubles as a light poke at clinic frustrations while st...
OpenAI has begun rolling out ChatGPT Health in Australia, starting with a limited number of early users. The feature will expand to more users on a waitlist soon and broadly in February. ChatGPT Healt...
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...
Health Minister Mark Butler has confirmed that the number of bulk billing GP clinics in Australia is rising quickly. A recent report from Cleanbill shows that over 1200 practices have switched to full...
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...
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...
