The Pharmacy Board of Australia and AHPRA have launched a public consultation on a proposed national prescribing standard for pharmacist prescribing. The endorsement would create a uniform qualificati...
In 2024-25 the Australian government released 1.4 billion dollars early from superannuation for compassionate reasons, with the program run by the Australian Taxation Office. The data show that more t...
Medicinal cannabis usage in Australia declined in the second half of 2025, dropping to 2.65 million units after regulators signalled a tougher stance on problematic actors. Department of Health, Disab...
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...
The Australian Taxation Office and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency have joined forces to warn about the compassionate release of superannuation for dental work. They insist access...
The Australian National Audit Office is examining whether the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing’s use of AI to manage health provider non-compliance is effective. The ANAO has asked four gov...
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has added sexual misconduct findings to public registers for 107 practitioners in its first round of landmark reforms. Of these, 86 are cancelled pract...
In Australia, Google search results increasingly shape public perception of medical professionals. The piece explains that regulatory bodies such as AHPRA and the Health Care Complaints Commission pub...
AHPRA has begun permanently publishing sexual misconduct findings on practitioners’ public registrations. In the first tranche, 107 registrations were updated, with about 50 of the cases involving doc...
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 regulator AHPRA has established an inaugural panel named Organisational Review Group Incidents of distress to conduct a high level organisational review of suicide related incidents inv...
The issue of clinics prescribing medicinal cannabis they also supply has put vertical integration under scrutiny. Five experts were asked and all of them opposed the model, arguing it creates conflict...
The Australian Medical Association has lodged a submission to the Health Legislation Amendment (Improving Choice and Transparency for Private Health Consumers) Bill 2026, flagging a fundamental flaw:...
The RACGP flu vaccination campaign is being rolled out to boost uptake by encouraging people to book their flu jab through local general practices as influenza cases rise across Australia ahead of the...
Legislation called the Genetic Testing Protections in Life Insurance and Other Measures Bill 2025 passed, banning life insurers from using genetic test results to assess applicants. The move is design...
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...
At the Informa Connect Virtual Care conference in Sydney, Eucalyptus senior legal counsel and head of public policy Lyndon Goddard urged industry self-accreditation for online telehealth to embed nati...
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...
