The National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System has logged more than 220 diphtheria notifications from January 1 to May 20, with the Northern Territory recording 133 cases and Western Australia 82...
Medicines Australia warns PBS listing is under pressure as US price reform reshapes pharmaceutical launches. The group argues Australia’s low medicine prices, slow reimbursement timelines and aggressi...
Cohealth faced a blocked release of its review summary just minutes before it was due to be public. The review carries 13 recommendations directed at the federal government, state government and Cohea...
AHPRA is at the centre of sustained media criticism over how it handles clinicians involved in the gender-affirming treatment debate. Critics question the regulator’s neutrality, its links with advoca...
The RACGP has issued a position statement on telehealth-only services, setting out safeguards to protect patient care. It requires these services to share information with the patient’s usual GP, and...
On Friday the federal government and Cohealth announced a joint funding commitment of $1.5 million each to sustain Cohealth's general practice services in Collingwood, Fitzroy and Kensington for 12 mo...
The piece argues that prevention should be actively incentivised and financed, warning that current Australian structures hamper scalable population health efforts. It notes the US is shifting toward...
The NSW Legislative Council inquiry into fertility support and assisted reproductive treatment heard personal testimonies about miscarriage and stillbirth, highlighting serious gaps in care. Four wome...
509 days have passed since the second consultation on the National Nursing Workforce Strategy, and the plan remains unpublished. The Australian College of Nursing is pressuring the government to relea...
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has extended the Other Medical Practitioners Extension Program (OMPEP) to preserve higher GP Medicare rebates for non-vocationally registered doctors in...
The RACGP Foundation has launched a fresh funding round to back GP-led research focused on improving how medicines are used in general practice. The program pools $1.1 million for 2026 across Large an...
Catholic Health Australia and Bupa Health Insurance have called on the Federal Government to broaden hospital in the home services and reform Medicare telehealth so clinicians can bill for hospital-le...
Australia appears to be adopting NHS-style policy levers through changes to bulk billing for general practice. The government has tied a 12.5 per cent practice incentive to 100 per cent bulk billing o...
Federal health minister Mark Butler announced an extra $1.5 million in funding to keep Cohealth services at Collingwood, Fitzroy and Kensington open for 12 months. The money is time limited and contin...
The Australian Medical Association joined the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in criticising the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s draft data governance framework for the...
The Grattan Institute released a policy brief arguing that expanding bulk-billing incentives to all patients channels billions into general practice while deepening funding flaws. Before November 2025...
Local Government NSW has released a six point plan for rural and regional healthcare, centered on a GP guarantee backed by a $200 million funding proposal. The plan aims to recruit GPs in locations th...
The Department of Health Disability and Ageing's distribution working group approved 96 percent of DPA exemption applications in 2021 but has not approved any since. The Distribution Priority Area pol...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has outlined funding requests ahead of the 2026–27 Federal Budget. It is asking for a $20 million federal investment in 2026–27 and $160.4 million...
From 1 July this year the federal AML/CTF regime expands to designated services, broadening oversight beyond gambling, bullion and financial firms. The change is framed around what a service does, not...
