Primary Care

The Department of Health Disability and Ageing has clarified there are no immediate plans to display individual GP fees on the Medical Costs Finder. This sits alongside new laws aimed at publishing no...

General practitioners in Australia carried the case to Parliament as the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners led the GPs Parliament advocacy event in Canberra from March 2 to 5, 2026. Th...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and around 20 peak patient bodies travelled to Canberra to push for reform of Medicare rebates for longer GP consultations. They note that more th...

The ACHIEVE-3 trial tested an oral GLP-1 receptor agonist, orforglipron, against oral semaglutide in 1698 adults with type 2 diabetes not adequately controlled on metformin. The study, funded by Eli L...

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...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has completed the first in-person ADHD training cohort for 100 South Australian GPs. They are now qualified to diagnose, manage and prescr...

Victoria Police has reversed a change that placed the onus on GPs to assess police recruits. In July 2025 VicPol updated its recruitment process so GPs would decide if applicants were physically and m...

Dr Paul Eleftheriou from Nous Group is moving to Medibank as chief medical officer (customer). He will finish at Nous on 13 March and start at Medibank on 31 March, taking over from Dr Christopher Rob...

A global taskforce of 45 psychopharmacology experts, including Australians, published new guidance in JAMA Network Open. It argues that prescribing, renewing and deprescribing psychotropic medicines s...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners SA launched its 2026 election policy platform in the SA campaign. A key ask is to create a South Australian Centre of Excellence in Neurodiversity...

South Australia is seeing a notable rise in general practice training. In 2026, 154 future GPs began on the Australian General Practice Training Program in SA, a 35% rise from the previous year. Of th...

Victoria Police has reversed a controversial recruitment change and will again have the final say on whether applicants are fit for frontline duty. The force says it will strengthen the physical and m...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) will run a National Close the Gap Day webinar on March 19 from 7.00 to 8.00 pm AEDT. The session is free for RACGP members and offers opti...

Australia’s latest ABS data show influenza deaths reached 1701 in 2025, the highest annual tally this century. The year also recorded more than 2100 deaths linked to COVID-19. Over 2023 to 2025 the in...

Eight scholarships are being offered under the 2026 Northern Territory Scholarship program, launched by General Practice Registrars Australia to support incoming GPs and rural generalists who train an...

Best Practice has integrated Lyrebird Health’s AI scribe into the BP Premier free tier. The move gives general practices access to AI assisted note taking without extra costs, aiming to support clinic...

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...