AI for Care, Ireland’s first national strategy dedicated to applying artificial intelligence in health and social care, was unveiled by Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill. The plan targets four...
The Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre has welcomed the Ambitious Australia report, which names Health and Medical as one of six National Innovation Pillars. The report argues for a world-clas...
The South Australian branch of the Australian Medical Association, AMA SA, has outlined reforms to attract international medical graduates and strengthen the health system ahead of the state election....
An Australian physician writer uses International Women's Day to spotlight a persistent bias toward women doctors in hospitals. Dr Kristine Gilbert, who has more than 25 years in emergency and critica...
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 Royal Australian College of General Practitioners released results from the 2026.1 cycle for the Applied Knowledge Test and the Key Feature Problem. In January, over 2,200 candidates sat the two e...
Seniru Mudannayake, president of the Australian Medical Students Association, outlined the toll of placement poverty on medical students. He described juggling study with part time work to cover rent...
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...
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...
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...
A Health Affairs study analysed dissatisfaction, stress and burnout among primary care doctors in the United States and nine other high income countries, including Australia. The results showed that w...
An updated analysis from RACGP and ACRRM tracks where medical graduates begin GP training in 2025. The dataset covers 1226 GPs-in-training who commenced the Australian GP Training pathway that year. M...
From July, Victorians aged 18 and over can obtain the oral contraceptive pill from 850 participating pharmacies without a prescription or direct GP input, under the Chemist Care Now program. The polic...
Emerging Minds and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners have teamed up to offer free accredited training for GPs on child mental health. The programme includes an assessment toolkit,...
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...
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...
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...
Gender data gaps underpin health outcomes. More than 75% of gender related data is over a decade old, limiting how governments and health systems design interventions. Women have long been underrepres...
Medtech Global has launched Medtech AI in New Zealand. The platform integrates with Medtech Evolution, the practice management system, to deliver context aware patient summaries and automated clinical...
Australia’s My Mirror released its 2025 Mental Health Review, using de-identified data from thousands of online psychology sessions. The findings show online therapy can lower distress levels, with so...
