The Federal Government has launched a free telehealth therapy for emerging mental illness, offering LiCBT low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy for people 16 and older. Access is available witho...
The federal government has rolled out a telephone based mental health support service called Medicare Mental Health Check In for Australians aged 16 and over who are experiencing mild distress such as...
The 2026 State of VAD Report was released at Parliament House, with Andrew Denton of Go Gentle Australia arguing federal barriers are delaying access to voluntary assisted dying. He highlighted a Comm...
Rural health advocates say Medicare telehealth funding rules introduced on 1 November last year constrain nurse practitioner delivered care. The Australian College of Nursing told a Senate committee t...
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia is lobbying to make PBS prescribing rights for pharmacists permanent, building on trial funding for pharmacist‑led prescribing that has not yet started. Guild president...
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 Department of Health Disability and Ageing released its 2026 compliance priorities, with telehealth front and centre. The department says there are five key priorities this year, down from eight i...
Associate Professor Joel Rhee, a GP with a special interest in aged care and the head of general practice at UNSW, led a 30-year analysis of Medicare funded GP home visits for a grant to the Australia...
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...
1800Medicare has been launched as Australia’s grand national triage service, but its future is unsettled as patient-facing AI agents move fast. The government’s system faces the risk of becoming redun...
RACGP president Dr Michael Wright and fellow primary care leaders joined hundreds in Canberra for a two day conference hosted by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. The event, titled Inte...
The RACGP NSW/ACT has released its NSW pre-budget submission for 2026-27, urging the government to lift primary care funding. A core ask is a 40 per cent rise in Medicare rebates for Level C and D GP...
Closing the Gap report highlights that meaningful improvements for First Nations health hinge on structural reform rather than promises. Rural and Indigenous health bodies greeted the findings as esse...
A coalition led by the Juvenile Arthritis Foundation Australia and the Australian Paediatric Rheumatology Group, with more than 20 national health organisations, has renewed a push during Juvenile Art...
The Federal Government has released a consultation paper examining whether current referral rules still fit modern healthcare and is exploring options to extend default referral validity periods. The...
Novo Nordisk used a National Press Club address to push for expanding access to GLP-1 receptor agonists for children with obesity. The company proposed that the federal government consider using these...
The Australian Digital Health Agency has created a national governance body for digital health, abbreviated as NCGC-DH, to raise clinical oversight of digital health tools. The committee will guide th...
The Northern Territory held its inaugural GPs@Parliament last week, organised by the RACGP NT faculty. General practitioners offered MPs health checks as they spoke one-on-one about general practice,...
Healthcare leadership faces a high failure rate in the first year, with research showing 40 to 50 per cent of senior leaders exit within 18 months. The piece foregrounds a chief operating officer in a...
Australia will run a 12 month trial from January 2027 that lets concession card holders access pharmacy prescribed contraceptives and allows qualified pharmacists to treat uncomplicated UTIs without a...
