The Thriving Kids Advisory Group has published its final report and backs a Medicare funded health check for three year olds. The move is part of the Thriving Kids model of care and comes after the go...
The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme has listed Andriga-10 for advanced prostate cancer. Andriga-10 merges abiraterone acetate with prednisolone in a single prescription. Abiraterone acetate blocks horm...
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 Australian Medical Association submitted a policy proposal to cap spinal imaging requests by chiropractors at three per patient per year. A departmental letter dated 15 November 2025 is cited, wit...
Findings from 2026 General Practice Business Viability Insights, produced by Hunter New England Centre Coast PHN, show staffing remains a core problem and administration is a heavy burden. About one t...
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...
Australia’s Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs will run a wide review of how recent Medicare reforms affect rural primary care. The inquiry will assess the 1 November 2025 changes...
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...
Australia’s regulatory watchdog has tightened safety guidance around melatonin after uncovering fake imports with highly variable labelled content. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) tested 18...
The Australian Medical Association warns Medicare not to restrict GP access to MBS item 55278, which covers renal duplex ultrasound with B mode imaging and integrated Doppler flow analysis of renal an...
Professor Louise Stone lays out a blunt view of general practice in Australia. She uses the Cynefin framework to map patient problems into four habitats. The simplest are known knowns: clear diagnoses...
The federal government has announced a two stage reform to how medicines are dispensed and tracked in Australia. In the first stage, all online and telehealth prescribers will upload details of a pati...
A Danish study analysed grocery receipts from 1177 participants, with 293 starting GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy during the study period. The dataset included more than 80,000 receipts before treatme...
A NSW Primary Health Network released a viability analysis covering 189 general practices surveyed from July to October 2025 in the Hunter New England Central Coast region. The results show modest imp...
Birregurra, a rural Victoria town of about 1000 people, currently has only one GP at Birregurra Medical Centre. The clinic sits roughly two hours from Melbourne, and Dr Jared Kilday is leading a push...
Jill Ludford has announced her retirement after more than three decades in NSW Health, including 11 years as chief executive of Murrumbidgee Local Health District. The MLHD oversees a large regional h...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners reports a clear rise in patients presenting with workplace related mental health concerns. In a newsGP poll, 82% of GPs said they had seen more pa...
Monash University led the DNA Screen pilot to test nationwide genomic screening in adults aged 18 to 40, run from 2022 to 2024. More than 10,000 participants joined the study, with over 30,000 registe...
A large Australian randomised trial, MIST+, tested whether a 3-month plan of intranasal saline could serve as a true first-line therapy for paediatric obstructive sleep-disordered breathing (OSDB). Th...
