The Australian Medical Association has released a report that flags serious risks from Australia’s fragmented digital health systems. These systems are often isolated and use incompatible software, wh...
The voluntary assisted dying sector in Australia faces major pay gaps. A 2025 survey by VADANZ shows 63% of practitioners feel under remunerated and 27% delivered care without pay. Only about one in t...
The Senate committee managing rural and regional affairs has opened a formal inquiry into rural Medicare access. The terms of reference focus on the financial viability of independently owned rural GP...
The federal government has announced reforms to create a National Medicines Record. This will give patients, prescribers and pharmacists a complete medicines history across digital health tools. As a...
A Queensland Supreme Court ruling found that former Professional Services Review director Professor Julie Quinlivan committed misfeasance in public office when she referred ophthalmologist Dr David Ki...
The Department of Health Disability and Ageing launched a nationwide campaign to promote expanded bulk-billing incentives and the Bulk Billing Practice Incentive Program. The campaign carries the tagl...
Independent MP Dr Monique Ryan has stepped up pressure to unlock more funding from the Medical Research Future Fund. She launched the Medical Research Matters campaign after arguing it is wasteful for...
A GP led project aims to give practical, evidence based tools for miscarriage care in general practice. Dr Joanne Wong from the University of Western Australia is leading the work. Miscarriage affects...
Queensland’s medical association AMA Queensland has raised strong objections to proposed changes that would alter who can administer immunisations. The plan would amend the Medicines and Poisons Regul...
The Australian Medical Association has urged the federal government to urgently bolster funding for private maternity care to keep a balanced system between private and public services. The call follo...
A Productivity Commission inquiry on delivering quality care more efficiently has been finalised. It argues that investing in prevention and early intervention can reduce long-term health and social c...
The Australian GP policy landscape is adjusting to Medicare's chronic disease management CDM framework, with a new CDM framework taking effect from 1 July 2025. The Royal Australian College of General...
In Australia, GP access is presented as stronger than the common narrative suggests. Dr Nerida McDonald argues that general practice is highly accessible and that digital tools are already embedded in...
Australia has enacted reforms to My Health Record through the Health Legislation Amendment Act 2025. The changes make uploading mandatory for pathology and diagnostic imaging reports. From October 202...
Australian genomic researchers from Monash University have renewed calls for a nationwide DNA screening program. The complete results from their 10 000-person pilot show 2% carry a high risk genetic v...
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing released plans to phase out Medicare rebate cheques by July 2028 and opened a public consultation on the changes. Under the proposal, government cheques...
Late in 2025, the Prime Minister urged states to rein in public hospital spending as a condition for ongoing Commonwealth funding. States pushed back, noting rising demand, complexity and access press...
The My Health Record system has been modernised to let patients access most pathology results on the day they see their clinician. Patients can also upload those results to AI tools like ChatGPT Healt...
Researchers in Sydney led an international effort through the Stroke and Cognition Consortium STROKOG to build a simple dementia risk calculator for stroke survivors. The tool is Excel based and uses...
Researchers analysed data from more than 36,000 GPs across 103 local areas in Australia, covering before, during and after the COVID period. GPs who used telemedicine more intensively prescribed aroun...
