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...
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...
Healthed conducted a survey of almost 400 GPs who moved to universal bulk billing after the government’s new incentives last year. Among respondents, 1% of male GPs said their personal income had sign...
The National Association for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners (NAATSIHWP) has unveiled a three‑part webinar series to help general practices integrate Aboriginal...
Avant published a sponsored piece in newsGP detailing six practical tips to hire quality staff for general practices. It emphasizes that the wrong hire causes repeated recruitment and disruption, then...
The Australasian Institute for Digital Health will lead a national Clinical Informatics Fellowship program that is slated to launch in 2027, created in partnership with the Digital Health Cooperative...
NSW has opened a $96 million RNA research and manufacturing facility at the Macquarie University Innovation Precinct. The centre is the only site in Australia equipped to produce a wide array of RNA b...
ASMOF NSW has accused NSW Health of blocking study leave for junior doctors, forcing them to rely on accrued days off instead. At Liverpool Hospital, junior medical officers were told they could not a...
Health New Zealand's Student Placement Digital Coordination Tool, part of the Health Placement Hub, was evaluated through a 2024-2025 pilot with one education provider and anaesthetic technicians. A D...
GP training numbers are up at least 20% this year, yet the GP supervisor workforce remains under supported. A rare joint statement from the National Council of Primary Care Doctors urges governments t...
South Australia is piloting a coordinated push to raise flu vaccination rates. General practitioners joined SA Health officials as Health and Wellbeing Minister Blair Boyer and Chief Public Health Off...
A modelling study from New Zealand projects gynaecological cancers to rise by 82% by 2045, with uterine cancer cases forecast to nearly double from 717 to 1506 per year. The analysis, published in the...
The Northern Territory Government is advancing a plan announced in 2024 to let trained pharmacists autonomously prescribe for 21 conditions. As the expansion progresses, GPs in the NT are being consul...
Australian clinicians are being invited to share real world experiences with self collection cervical screening as researchers assess whether more flexible access models could raise participation and...
The Consumers Health Forum of Australia released the 2025 National Consumer Sentiment Survey, based on 5,160 interviews conducted in early 2025. It shows that only a third of Australians have heard of...
A real world study tested AI generated consultation summaries for patients using i-scribe during otolaryngology and ophthalmology visits. The research involved 249 patients and was led by Monash Healt...
Acting on political direction, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency will publicly disclose tribunal findings of sexual misconduct on an ongoing basis, even when there is no criminal co...
The Australian College of Nursing has urged the federal government to revise the Medicare Urgent Care Clinic Program Operational Guidance so nurse practitioners can independently lead Medicare urgent...
Sunnyfield Disability Services has deployed Cloda, an AI powered compliance and patient safety management assistant, to its 1,800 frontline staff in New South Wales. The rollout follows a six-site pil...
The piece recounts Dr Dominique Lee’s 2013 assault by a senior radiology director, a crime she reported to police and ultimately saw punished in court as the only junior doctor to win a criminal convi...
