The government is moving to mandate price disclosure for medical specialists. The Medical Costs Finder (MCF), launched in 2022 by the Morrison Government, aimed to help Australians compare costs for c...
West Australia has launched a 2.6 million dollar program to provide the Arexvy RSV vaccine free for residents aged 65 and older living in aged care facilities. About 15,000 people are expected to rece...
The New Zealand College of General Practitioners released the Your Work Counts study, analysing 566 NZ GPs. It shows 56% of a GP’s time is spent in patient consultations, while 31% is non-contact clin...
Denise Lyons leads the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association. She says prevention belongs in primary care. Nurses should work at their full scope. Funding lags behind practice. She compare...
Denise Lyons, a registered nurse and now President of the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA), is pushing to make prevention central in Australia’s primary care system. She argues...
Victoria Police shifted health checks to nominated GPs last year. The aim is a flexible, efficient recruitment process for applicants. GPs assess medical suitability going back five years and run two...
The US administration launched RealFood.gov to publish Robert F Kennedy Jr’s dietary guidelines and to power public questions about real food with Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot. Grok is presented as a t...
A qualitative study across Australia examined how emergency hormonal contraception guidelines are used in practice. Seventeen pharmacists were interviewed to explore how guidelines for levonorgestrel...
Australia needs a national digital nursing passport. The Australian College of Nursing released its 2026–27 pre-budget submission. It calls for a federally funded National Nursing Capability Passport...
Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme has added Wynzora to subsidies for chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris. Wynzora combines calcipotriol and betamethasone dipropionate and is now sub...
Western Australia is expanding its Enhanced Access Community Pharmacy Pilot (EACPP) with 40 additional pharmacists who will train to diagnose and treat simple conditions. The move comes after the gove...
Roxanne Suwas, a Perth based practice owner and mentor, argues that calling GP visits free hides the true cost of running general practice. General practices aren’t government funded like hospitals. T...
South Australia is seeing a political split over expanding pharmacy prescribing. The Labour government backs the move as a way to improve access to care, while the Liberal opposition says they are not...
Australia is moving to bake price transparency into private health care. The Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2026 Schedule 1 would let the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing publish informa...
Queensland is revisiting the idea of adding physician assistants to the public health system. A leaked 2024 business case proposed lifting the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service PA workforce f...
The Improving Choice and Transparency for Private Health Consumers Bill sets out plans to publish GP fees and bulk-billing rates by default on the Medical Costs Finder. The data would come from Medica...
Pertussis cases have surged in Australia, reaching levels not seen in 35 years. For 2024, Australia recorded 57,257 pertussis cases, and the combined total for 2024–2025 reached 82,530, the highest si...
