On 14 May 2026 the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners released a position statement on telehealth only care. It argues telehealth should not replace routine in person care and that cons...
The piece argues that prevention should be actively incentivised and financed, warning that current Australian structures hamper scalable population health efforts. It notes the US is shifting toward...
Older Australians who keep a regular GP are less likely to end up in hospital or present to emergency departments. A national study of more than 120,000 Australians aged 65 and older, conducted 2016–1...
General practice is being reshaped as routine tasks move to alternatives. Urgent care centres enable same‑day access, while pharmacists and nurse practitioners are expanding their roles and digital to...
cohealth has been granted a $1.5 million Commonwealth funding reprieve to keep its GP clinics open while it implements governance and service reforms. The funding is time-limited and conditional for u...
Interoperability in Australian health care is moving from planning to execution. The Australian Digital Health Agency reports that 47% of initiatives under the national digital health plan for 2023 to...
Grattan Institute has published a policy briefing arguing for a shift away from fee-for-service as the main income for GPs toward a blended funding model. Authors Peter Breadon and Molly Chapman conte...
Stepdown service opens in Walkerville with 10 beds and marks the first tranche of a planned 50-bed network across Adelaide hospitals. The College Grove facility is run through a collaboration between...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has outlined funding requests ahead of the 2026–27 Federal Budget. It is asking for a $20 million federal investment in 2026–27 and $160.4 million...
A core practical shift is the discharge phase. Patients must leave hospital with a detailed, individualised plan for ongoing care that is provided to both the patient and their GP. This information su...
Health NZ’s BroPilot project is a culturally grounded adaptation of Microsoft Copilot developed by Troy Baker. The pilot sits within Haoura Māori Services and aims to reflect Māori values, whakaaro an...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has lodged a submission to Parliament arguing that GPs should be formally embedded in the National Disability Insurance Scheme legislation. This c...
Eleven new endometriosis and pelvic pain clinics have opened in general practices, bringing the total number of clinics to 33. The rollout is part of the Federal Government’s 793 million dollars women...
RACGP expands RES. The move brings military medicine and veterans’ health into the Recognition of Extended Skills framework. The Recognition of Extended Skills applies to GPs with extensive experience...
England's NHS England has walked back some rhetoric around its Advice and Guidance scheme after GP pushback in contract talks with the British Medical Association. Dr Amanda Doyle, NHS England's natio...
Avive Health is opening its second Melbourne hospital, Avive Clinic Melbourne, in Alphington. The facility will offer 30 beds for specialist mental health care after a $15 million upgrade to the forme...
Dr Adele Stewart uses a NewsGP opinion to argue that chronic pain cannot be explained by tissue damage alone and GPs should adopt a biopsychosocial, person-centred approach. She ties this to the 2020...
The AMA released an updated position statement calling for practice nurses to play a larger role in GP led teams. It argues that current funding and policy settings stop GP clinics from fully using th...
At the 2026 ASCPD Symposium in Melbourne, Professor Firas Al-Niaimi argued that rosacea may be a systemic inflammatory condition. He highlighted gut involvement, naming Helicobacter pylori infection a...
Accenture ANZ outlines a path to reinvent how Australia handles chronic disease, emphasising linked data, analytics and AI to support dynamic shared care planning. It notes that 49.9% of Australians h...
