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 CareZen virtual care pod began a rollout in Tenterfield, a rural town in New South Wales, giving residents access to bulk-billed psychology sessions delivered by HealthBright. The pod provides a p...
Pancare Foundation has rolled out new clinical resources and surveillance guides to help health professionals spot pancreatic cancer earlier in Australia. Cancer Australia commissioned the materials....
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has become a supporter organisation of the Justice Reform Initiative. The group argues that simply increasing prison time does not solve crime. It...
From November 2025 the Australian government expanded the bulk-billing incentive for general practice. The changes extend a Medicare top-up to all patients who are bulk billed, not just concession-car...
The Australian College of Nursing Foundation has launched the Cynthea Wellings PhD Scholarship – Advancing nursing research and building Australia’s digital health capabilities. The top-up provides $9...
AIBUILD has launched emotion-aware companion robots for older adults living at home. The mobile, autonomous units stay in the home and learn what normal looks like for each person. They use camera-bas...
Fiona Armstrong, chief executive of Liquid, outlined a bold rethink of care delivery at the international e-Mental Health Conference in Toronto. She argues health has become overly specialised and fra...
The Australian government and all states and territories agreed to back Thriving Kids with a new A$2 billion funding package. It will create a foundational supports program for children aged 0-8 with...
The Australian health system is facing a shift in how governance is defined and applied. Traditional clinical governance, built for hospitals and face-to-face care, struggles to cover safety and quali...
HBF, a Perth-based not-for-profit health insurer, launched HBF Ventures, a $25 million corporate venture capital fund. The aim is to back early and growth‑stage health tech that can improve system per...
Digital Health Week 2026 showcased Professor Peter Steele from the University of Melbourne. He framed AI as something to implement through front end Learning Health System work. LHS lets health servic...
The Australian Pharmacy Council is inviting feedback on the Accreditation Standards for Pharmacy Programs (2020). The move fits a five year cycle that aligns with the new Pharmacist Capability Framewo...
Independent MPs Dr Helen Haines and David Pocock have launched a parliamentary petition to extend the Commonwealth prac payment scheme to medical and allied health students. The current scheme provide...
The Sydney Adventist Hospital hosted the inaugural Women in CI Asia Pacific Summit 2026 on February 6–7. Surgeons and hearing specialists from across the Asia Pacific shared concerns about gaps in adu...
The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia SA and NT branch is driving a new Australian framework for the Palliative Care Pharmacist. Helen Stone, the SA/NT State and Territory Manager, has drawn on GP p...
World Cancer Day on 4 February 2026 spotlights the push for person centred cancer care. The campaign, led by the Union for International Cancer Control, emphasises seeing the patient as a whole person...
A large survey of more than 2,000 primary healthcare nurses by the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association reveals that 29 per cent of general practice nurses do not regularly or often work...
Findings from 2026 General Practice Business Viability Insights, produced by Hunter New England Centre Coast PHN, show staffing remains a core problem and administration is a heavy burden. About one t...
The Federal and state governments reached a deal at National Cabinet to boost public hospital funding by $25 billion over five years, from 2026–27 to 2030–31. The plan lifts the federal share of hospi...
