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Australia is rolling out its 2026 influenza vaccination guidance ahead of winter. The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) highlights that a clinician’s recommendation is the st...

AI is moving into everyday management in digital health. It allocates work, tracks compliance and tunes workflows. In Australia this shift raises psychosocial risk concerns. The Safe Work Australia mo...

OpenDirector’s latest snapshot places CSL chief financial officer Joy Linton and ResMed CFO Brett Sandercock among the 20 highest paid in Australia. Linton, who left the CFO role in October 2025 and n...

A global taskforce of 45 psychopharmacology experts, including Australians, published new guidance in JAMA Network Open. It argues that prescribing, renewing and deprescribing psychotropic medicines s...

HotDoc has rolled out Flexible Checkout, adding Apple Pay and Google Pay to online bookings. The change defaults the payment flow to HotDoc unless a practice or PMS partner disables it. Many clinics s...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners SA launched its 2026 election policy platform in the SA campaign. A key ask is to create a South Australian Centre of Excellence in Neurodiversity...

South Australia is seeing a notable rise in general practice training. In 2026, 154 future GPs began on the Australian General Practice Training Program in SA, a 35% rise from the previous year. Of th...

Australia has launched the Digital Health Train the Trainer Toolkit to help universities embed digital health into health degrees. The initiative is a collaboration between the Australian Digital Heal...

Australia’s latest ABS data show influenza deaths reached 1701 in 2025, the highest annual tally this century. The year also recorded more than 2100 deaths linked to COVID-19. Over 2023 to 2025 the in...

A decade long analysis of AHPRA health impairment notifications published in the Medical Journal of Australia shows non-specialist doctors, including GPs, are more likely to be the subject of health i...

Eight scholarships are being offered under the 2026 Northern Territory Scholarship program, launched by General Practice Registrars Australia to support incoming GPs and rural generalists who train an...

The Federal Government commissioned an independent evaluation of Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (UCCs). More than 130 clinics are now operating, with 87 analysed between June 2023 and August 2025. The s...

Tasmania is considering a pilot to test paramedics as prescribers. The proposal sits within a government push to upskill the rural health workforce, but AMA Tasmania objects. They have branded paramed...

Primary Health Care Nurses Day highlights the role of nurses who help people stay well before illness worsens. Denise Lyons, a nurse practitioner and president of the Australian Primary Care Nurses As...

The NSW government has released its first Aboriginal Cancer Strategy, aimed at lifting cancer outcomes in Aboriginal communities. The plan prioritises stronger collaboration between NSW Health and the...

Australian researchers report a clear shift in parental attitudes to routine childhood vaccines. A 2025 survey by the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance surveyed about 2000 par...

An Australian study examined how AHPRA handles health impairment notifications from 2012 to 2022. It found that 1.1 per cent of doctors received a health impairment notification during this period. In...

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...

The 2026 Australian GP training year is on track with the AGPT contract signed and training bodies confirming registrars will not be forced into universal bulk-billing clinics. The government had sign...