Primary Care

UK researchers report that pairing an AI driven analysis with an electronic stethoscope can identify clinically significant valvular heart disease more quickly and cheaply. In a multi centre study, 17...

The RACGP has pushed back on the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing’s proposed replacement for the Pay Doctor via Claimant scheme. A December consultation paper outlines a gap only payment mo...

An updated analysis from RACGP and ACRRM tracks where medical graduates begin GP training in 2025. The dataset covers 1226 GPs-in-training who commenced the Australian GP Training pathway that year. M...

A coalition of telehealth operators and insurers has released a self-published set of National Telehealth Standards. The 34 page document outlines expectations around clinical governance, patient safe...

The 2025 Digital Health Festival will be held in Melbourne on 20–21 May, gathering RACGP leaders and hundreds of health tech professionals to discuss transforming care through stronger GP digital conn...

Emerging Minds and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners have teamed up to offer free accredited training for GPs on child mental health. The programme includes an assessment toolkit,...

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...

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia reportedly paid up to 110000 per year for a seat at a Canberra birthday dinner for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers. The event doubled...

A new Single Employer Model SEM GP training trial has launched in Charleville, a rural Queensland town about 700 kilometres west of Brisbane. Led by an Aboriginal community controlled health organisat...

RACGP has put forward the Pathways to Rural budget proposal. It would fund metropolitan GPs to work in rural practices for four weeks each year to build ongoing relationships with patients and communi...

The Victorian Department of Health has launched a script-free, doctor-free program that lets pharmacists initiate prescriptions for the oral contraceptive pill. From July, women over 18 can access the...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is pressing for a funded Pathways to Rural program. City GPs would spend four weeks a year in rural practices, with the aim of boosting rural GP c...

The Australian government has rolled out a series of March MBS updates. Key changes include new nationwide patient end support items that let GPs provide in person help during video sessions with non...

All 16 Australian medical colleges have launched a national framework to guide ethical billing, cost transparency and informed financial consent. The Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges, which i...

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...

Queensland has introduced safety rules that ban anyone under 16 from riding e-scooters, e-bikes and e-motorbikes. The change follows a parliamentary inquiry into e-mobility devices and its key recomme...

The Australasian Menopause Society is running the Menopause Essentials Update, a half day in Ballarat on Saturday 28 March from 9.00 am to 12.30 pm AEDT. The in person workshop targets GPs and other h...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) is emphasising frontline GP advocacy through its GP Advocate Network, which now includes 151 members across Australia. Dr Jennie Wright, a...

A major Australian study examined more than 330,000 aged care residents across about 3,000 facilities from 2013 to 2019. It shows GP continuity matters. Only 17.3% kept their usual GP after moving in,...

A Melbourne research team has developed a portable, point-of-care test that can detect four common sexually transmitted infections in under an hour. The CRISPR-based device tests for syphilis, gonorrh...