Integrated Care

NSW recorded the highest level of emergency department activity in more than 15 years for the October–December 2025 quarter, according to the Bureau of Health Information. ED attendances reached 820,0...

An opinion piece by Gohar Yazdabadi, CEO of COTA NSW, argues that ageing should be treated as a design challenge rather than a cost problem. Australians are living longer, with 80s now common and many...

At Australian Healthcare Week in Sydney, Amanda Cattermole, chief executive of the Australian Digital Health Agency, said digital health has moved from a supporting role to a central driver of health...

At Australian Healthcare Week in Sydney, leaders from aged care providers, clinical services, research and digital transformation pressed for a move away from expanding residential facilities toward c...

Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed the SAFE score, a five minute questionnaire designed to flag adolescents and young women at risk of endometriosis. The tool converts response...

At a parliamentary forum focused on ME/CFS and long covid, lawmakers, clinicians, researchers and people living with the conditions discussed reform progress and remaining gaps. The hearing highlighte...

The federal government has expanded access to health information in My Health Record under the Sharing by Default reforms. Patients can view limb x-ray reports as soon as they are uploaded. This week...

Lin Hua slept in a parked car after a family crisis in Sydney’s north, living with depression and an ADHD diagnosis from the pandemic era. Her path to care began at a neighbourhood health hub in Dee W...

Australia’s Productivity Commission argues collaborative commissioning is a repeatable model in which Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks jointly plan, design, procure and evaluate car...

An Australian policy group, the Australian Institute of Health Executives, published a white paper arguing that emergency department funding must reflect patient complexity rather than throughput. EDs...

Five Faces, a Brisbane based patient experience software firm, has rolled out Patient Journey Support as part of its Unified Patient Hub. The platform guides patients from waitlists through perioperat...

Consultmed has embedded a social prescribing feature into its national digital referral platform, enabling clinicians to issue digital social prescriptions for non-clinical services within their stand...

A new study compares primary care in six wealthy nations and finds the sector is undervalued and underfunded. Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada and the United States...

NSW health minister Ryan Park told a Budget Estimates hearing that NSW will not copy Queensland’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments for young people with gender dysphoria. NSW emphasises...

A nationwide retrospective study led by the ROSA Research Group analysed health outcomes for older residents in long term care across almost 3,000 Australian facilities from 2013 to 2019. The dataset...

From 1 March 2026, the government expands Medicare rebates for GP referrals to speech pathology. Eligible patients under 25 can access eight assessments and 20 treatment sessions with speech pathologi...

From 1 March the Medicare Benefits Schedule will allow up to 20 rebated treatment sessions and eight assessment sessions for eligible patients under 25, delivered by speech pathologists and other alli...

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...

Researchers compared primary care in six rich nations and found it under unprecedented strain. The countries are the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zeala...