At Parliament House in Canberra, a two day summit brought together the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges and all 16 specialist colleges with Ministers Butler and McBride, the National Rural He...
All 16 Australian medical colleges have launched a national framework to guide ethical billing, cost transparency and informed financial consent. The Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges, which i...
A new study compares primary care in six wealthy nations and finds the sector is undervalued and underfunded. Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada and the United States...
Queensland has introduced safety rules that ban anyone under 16 from riding e-scooters, e-bikes and e-motorbikes. The change follows a parliamentary inquiry into e-mobility devices and its key recomme...
Australia's 16 specialist medical colleges have launched a national framework to improve ethical billing and fee transparency in specialist care. The Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges develope...
Queensland plans to wind back a long-standing drug diversion program that targets first-time offenders with a warning and directs repeat offenders to a health-led diversion. The three-strike approach...
A major Australian study examined more than 330,000 aged care residents across about 3,000 facilities from 2013 to 2019. It shows GP continuity matters. Only 17.3% kept their usual GP after moving in,...
The Department of Health Disability and Ageing has clarified there are no immediate plans to display individual GP fees on the Medical Costs Finder. This sits alongside new laws aimed at publishing no...
Four Corners highlighted a troubling pattern in Australian health care. A Melbourne gynaecologist, Simon Gordon, performed surgeries that removed ovaries and uteruses in dozens of young women who did...
Australia faces a coming surge in health demand as the population ages. The piece argues the current hospital‑driven model isn’t sustainable for the next decade or more. About 7% of people use nearly...
General practitioners in Australia carried the case to Parliament as the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners led the GPs Parliament advocacy event in Canberra from March 2 to 5, 2026. Th...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and around 20 peak patient bodies travelled to Canberra to push for reform of Medicare rebates for longer GP consultations. They note that more th...
A large Australian study analysed GAHT uptake from 2013 to 2024 using the Person-Level Integrated Data Asset, linking Census data with Medicare records. It identified 32,241 people who began gender-af...
Australia announced a pan-tumour PBS listing for nivolumab and ipilimumab, enabling affordable combination immunotherapy for thousands of Australians with advanced or metastatic cancer. The listing me...
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) has seen a high-level leadership clash capped by a decision from its president-elect to drop a Fair Work bullying case against the sitting president...
From 1 March 2026, the government expands Medicare rebates for GP referrals to speech pathology. Eligible patients under 25 can access eight assessments and 20 treatment sessions with speech pathologi...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has completed the first in-person ADHD training cohort for 100 South Australian GPs. They are now qualified to diagnose, manage and prescr...
A prominent Australian dermatologist and CEO of Xestro argues that the Therapeutic Goods Administration should shape a practical path for AI in healthcare via a Clinician-in-the-Loop exemption. Regula...
In 2025 Australian authorities carried out a broad recall of more than 20 sunscreen products after repeat testing showed SPF 50+ labels could not be reliably reproduced. The action followed CHOICE tes...
