The 2026 RACGP Hackathon kicked off in Sydney, bringing 51 participants across seven teams together for a three day sprint to address a primary care challenge. GPs collaborate with tech experts and en...
Australia will run a 12 month trial from January 2027 that lets concession card holders access pharmacy prescribed contraceptives and allows qualified pharmacists to treat uncomplicated UTIs without a...
RACGP led University of Origin analysis shows Monash University and James Cook University trained the most future GPs and rural generalists last year. Across 21 universities, 1226 graduates began gene...
At the Australian Pharmacy Professional conference on the Gold Coast, Pharmacy Guild president Trent Twomey pressed for pharmacists to be able to autonomously prescribe and sell Schedule 2, 4 and 8 dr...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Tasmanian branch has urged the State Government to redirect funding from a planned expansion of a pharmacist prescribing pilot into embedding phar...
A Labor MP sent a targeted letter to a Victorian general practice, expressing disappointment that it is not operating as a fully bulk-billing clinic and urging a move to 100 per cent bulk-billing. The...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners welcomed reforms to the Workforce Incentive Program Rural Advanced Skills stream. The changes set a GP’s total FTE as solely the service they prov...
AHPRA is delivering a series of webinars to help GPs with every aspect of their registration. Topics include the regulation of students in health professions, how supervision works in practice, and na...
Medicare data show GP home visits have dropped 85 percent over three decades, from almost four million in 1994 to under half a million in 2024. The analysis, led by Associate Professor Joel Rhee of th...
March 2026 brings changes to My Health Record that let patients see limb X-ray results the moment they are uploaded. Other imaging tests such as CT, MRI, PET, ultrasound and torso scans become viewabl...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners released results from the 2026.1 cycle for the Applied Knowledge Test and the Key Feature Problem. In January, over 2,200 candidates sat the two e...
The federal government has begun rolling out a set of incentives for GP registrars this semester. Registrars starting community-based training can access a salary incentive of up to 30,000, paid in in...
Dr Ramya Raman’s GP opinion published on newsGP on 11 March 2026 argues that women in medicine face structural barriers rather than dramatic obstacles. She uses personal experiences to illustrate how...
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...
From July, adults in Victoria can obtain the oral contraceptive pill from about 850 participating pharmacies without a GP script. Pharmacist consultations will be free, and patients still cover the me...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners backs ending Medicare rebate cheques but objects to a 90 day gap-only payment delay in the proposed electronic system. The government plans to ret...
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...
A Health Affairs study analysed dissatisfaction, stress and burnout among primary care doctors in the United States and nine other high income countries, including Australia. The results showed that w...
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...
A survey of more than 2,200 Australian women and girls found violence against women is the top health concern. The results, published in BMC Women’s Health, were shared by Monash University researcher...
