Health Policy

The National Efficient Price NEP26 was released this week and it is 2.2% higher than NEP25. The NEP sets the cap for Commonwealth funding to public hospitals under the National Health Reform Agreement...

A Labor MP sent a targeted letter to a Victorian general practice, expressing disappointment that it is not operating as a fully bulk-billing clinic and urging a move to 100 per cent bulk-billing. The...

Medicare data show GP home visits have dropped 85 percent over three decades, from almost four million in 1994 to under half a million in 2024. The analysis, led by Associate Professor Joel Rhee of th...

The federal government has begun rolling out a set of incentives for GP registrars this semester. Registrars starting community-based training can access a salary incentive of up to 30,000, paid in in...

The Queensland government unveiled a legislative plan in February to permit experienced paramedics to work in remote hospitals and health services. The reform, set to take effect on 1 April, allows re...

Dr Ramya Raman’s GP opinion published on newsGP on 11 March 2026 argues that women in medicine face structural barriers rather than dramatic obstacles. She uses personal experiences to illustrate how...

An opinion piece by Gohar Yazdabadi, CEO of COTA NSW, argues that ageing should be treated as a design challenge rather than a cost problem. Australians are living longer, with 80s now common and many...

At Australian Healthcare Week in Sydney, leaders from aged care providers, clinical services, research and digital transformation pressed for a move away from expanding residential facilities toward c...

From July, adults in Victoria can obtain the oral contraceptive pill from about 850 participating pharmacies without a GP script. Pharmacist consultations will be free, and patients still cover the me...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners backs ending Medicare rebate cheques but objects to a 90 day gap-only payment delay in the proposed electronic system. The government plans to ret...

At a parliamentary forum focused on ME/CFS and long covid, lawmakers, clinicians, researchers and people living with the conditions discussed reform progress and remaining gaps. The hearing highlighte...

Australia’s Productivity Commission argues collaborative commissioning is a repeatable model in which Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks jointly plan, design, procure and evaluate car...

The RACGP has pushed back on the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing’s proposed replacement for the Pay Doctor via Claimant scheme. A December consultation paper outlines a gap only payment mo...

A free webinar on patient-side AI agents is being hosted by Health Services Daily and TMR for Wednesday 25 March at 3 pm AEDT. The session features Bettina McMahon, CEO of Healthdirect; GP Dr Emily Ki...

An Australian policy group, the Australian Institute of Health Executives, published a white paper arguing that emergency department funding must reflect patient complexity rather than throughput. EDs...

Consultmed has embedded a social prescribing feature into its national digital referral platform, enabling clinicians to issue digital social prescriptions for non-clinical services within their stand...

A health media editor highlights growing anxiety about artificial intelligence in health work. A circulating paper titled A Rational Analysis of the Effects of Sycophantic AI argues that friendly, con...

A new Single Employer Model SEM GP training trial has launched in Charleville, a rural Queensland town about 700 kilometres west of Brisbane. Led by an Aboriginal community controlled health organisat...

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia reportedly paid up to 110000 per year for a seat at a Canberra birthday dinner for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers. The event doubled...

RACGP has put forward the Pathways to Rural budget proposal. It would fund metropolitan GPs to work in rural practices for four weeks each year to build ongoing relationships with patients and communi...