At the WA Digital Health Summit in Perth, health economist Luke Slawomirski warned that preventive healthcare is being neglected. He framed Australia’s system as reactive, expensive and fragmented, mo...
At the Australian Financial Review healthcare summit in Sydney, Dr Nick Coatsworth challenged simple budget splits and highlighted the NDIS as a major, growing funding item. He floated moving some NDI...
Australia's Commonwealth government has announced a $7.45 million funding package for Victoria to strengthen pelvic pain care in general practice. Part of the money will back Primary Health Networks t...
SafeWork NSW has directed the Royal Australasian College of Physicians to strengthen protections against bullying after months of board level turbulence. The regulator criticised the college’s work he...
Private health premiums rose 4.4 per cent on 1 April, matching the 4.4 per cent rise in the medical hospital services category of the ABS CPI. This occurs as the health system remains tilted toward ex...
A Melbourne paediatrician with Eastern Health describes removing a child from the public waitlist after the family failed to attend multiple appointments. The clinician details repeated outreach attem...
efex has acquired Priority 1 IT to deepen its healthcare and medical IT capability and extend its footprint across Queensland. Priority 1 IT provides IT support to more than 600 medical centres, healt...
The Consumers Health Forum of Australia released the 2025 National Consumer Sentiment Survey, based on around 5,000 Australian adults. It shows Australians trust the quality and safety of care but wor...
The HepLink telehealth service was launched by Hepatitis Australia to deliver an end-to-end care pathway for hepatitis C using integrated digital platforms. MediRecords provides the cloud-based clinic...
A major new review finds e-cigarettes are likely carcinogenic to humans, with links to lung and oral cancer. The analysis examined all peer reviewed trials and studies published between 2017 and mid 2...
A new international review of preconception and antenatal care shows men’s health remains a secondary consideration. The RACGP expert Dr Ka-Kiu Cheung says GPs can foster joint responsibility for preg...
Pharmacy access expands, consultation declines. Australia is weighing reforms to scope of practice rules and pharmacy prescribing to address primary care workforce gaps. Two decades after emergency co...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has rejected the Australian College of Nursing push to let nurse practitioners run urgent care clinics independently. The RACGP says UCCs must sta...
AHPRA has begun an end-to-end review of its notifications system to guard against misuse and to keep processes human-centric, according to CEO Justin Untersteiner during a March keynote. The effort si...
A Lowy Institute analysis argues that a concentrated global system for medicines creates resilience risks as geopolitics intensify. It notes that a large share of active pharmaceutical ingredients is...
Researchers from Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam published a prospective study in Human Reproduction examining whether ultra-processed food UPF consumption around conception relates to...
Ireland's St Vincent's University Hospital launched its surgical urology virtual ward pathway in September 2025. In its first six months the programme freed 162 urology bed days and shortened post ope...
Rising fuel prices are already impacting GP care, with rural clinics feeling the pinch the most. Unleaded petrol has increased by almost 40 percent and diesel by over 66 percent in under a month, acco...
Symex Labs is developing a wearable hormone biosensor to support IVF treatment, in collaboration with RMIT, the University of Melbourne and Monash IVF. The patch targets progesterone and oestradiol, r...
In Canberra, leaders from over 50 medical colleges, associations and societies gathered to address reforms to Australia’s health system. The session was led by Dr Sanjay Hettige, chair of the AMA Coun...
