The Australian Medical Association has asked for a seven-tier GP time-based Medicare Benefits Schedule item set in its 2026 budget submission. The proposal rewrites current levels A to E into seven ti...
Cleanbill released a geographic breakdown of self-reported bulk-billing data gathered between November and mid-December 2025, in the weeks after universal bulk billing became a requirement under the b...
University of Sydney researchers examined uptake of Medicare funded allied health services among people newly diagnosed with diabetes. The study found substantial underuse of lifestyle and self-manage...
GP bulk billing remains a central policy push as 3700 GP practices have signed up to 100 per cent bulk billing under the BB PIP five months after launch. Federal health minister Mark Butler announced...
The Australian Medical Association has filed a submission with the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing in response to the second consultation on Medicare funded cardiac imaging items. The AMA...
The federal government is pushing ahead with the Health Legislation Amendment (Improving Choice and Transparency for Private Health Consumers) Bill 2026 to underpin a revamped Medical Costs Finder. Th...
From 1 November 2025 the COVID-era exemption to the established clinical relationship rule for mental health telehealth was removed. The replacement requires patients to have seen a GP at least once i...
Health Minister Mark Butler is backing local MPs who have sent letters urging general practices to switch to universal bulk billing. The move is part of a broader push to secure more bulk-billed servi...
At the Australian Financial Review healthcare summit in Sydney, Dr Nick Coatsworth challenged simple budget splits and highlighted the NDIS as a major, growing funding item. He floated moving some NDI...
Australia's Commonwealth government has announced a $7.45 million funding package for Victoria to strengthen pelvic pain care in general practice. Part of the money will back Primary Health Networks t...
An international alliance led by AUSactive, the World Obesity Federation and Exercise New Zealand released a joint position statement urging governments to subsidise and align lifestyle interventions...
Value-based pricing moves ahead in Australia as affordability dominates policy debate at the Australian Financial Review Healthcare Summit. The approach prices care by its value to patients and to the...
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...
Rural health advocates say Medicare telehealth funding rules introduced on 1 November last year constrain nurse practitioner delivered care. The Australian College of Nursing told a Senate committee t...
The Consumers Health Forum of Australia released the 2025 National Consumer Sentiment Survey, based on around 5,000 Australian adults. It shows Australians trust the quality and safety of care but wor...
On International Trans Day of Visibility the Australian Human Rights Commission released Equal Identities, a human rights review of the experiences of trans and gender diverse people in Australia. It...
The government has committed to overhauling referral pathways and fixing rising non-GP specialist costs. A Grattan Institute 2025 paper proposes a digital asynchronous secondary consultation system wh...
Health Services Daily hosted a webinar on patient-side AI agents and how they are reshaping Australian consultations. The panel included Healthdirect chief executive Bettina McMahon, GP Dr Emily Kirkp...
The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine has asked the federal government to commit to improving rural maternity services in the upcoming budget. In its pre-budget submission, ACRRM outline...
The Department of Health Disability and Ageing opened a February consultation on modernising the GP to hospital based specialist referral ecosystem. The RACGP published terms for indefinite referrals...
