Primary Care

Dr Rod Jacobs, president of the Australia and New Zealand Hernia Society, calls on GPs to stop routinely ordering groin ultrasounds. He notes many scans are unnecessary or misinterpreted and push pati...

An Australian study examined how AHPRA handles health impairment notifications from 2012 to 2022. It found that 1.1 per cent of doctors received a health impairment notification during this period. In...

Western Australia is expanding its Enhanced Access Community Pharmacy Pilot (EACPP) with 40 additional pharmacists who will train to diagnose and treat simple conditions. The move comes after the gove...

The 2026 Australian GP training year is on track with the AGPT contract signed and training bodies confirming registrars will not be forced into universal bulk-billing clinics. The government had sign...

The Australian College of Nursing released its pre Budget submission for 2026–27, titled Invest in Nursing: The Solution to Australia’s Healthcare Challenges. It flags a health system under strain wit...

Roxanne Suwas, a Perth based practice owner and mentor, argues that calling GP visits free hides the true cost of running general practice. General practices aren’t government funded like hospitals. T...

South Australia is seeing a political split over expanding pharmacy prescribing. The Labour government backs the move as a way to improve access to care, while the Liberal opposition says they are not...

Diabetes Australia will invest $2 million in AI driven diabetes research through the Diabetes Australia Research Trust. The funding backs 19 projects across basic science, clinical care, health system...

The Improving Choice and Transparency for Private Health Consumers Bill sets out plans to publish GP fees and bulk-billing rates by default on the Medical Costs Finder. The data would come from Medica...

Pertussis cases have surged in Australia, reaching levels not seen in 35 years. For 2024, Australia recorded 57,257 pertussis cases, and the combined total for 2024–2025 reached 82,530, the highest si...

South Australia held a pre election debate on health policy that brought together the Labor government and the Liberal opposition. The event was organised by AMA SA ahead of the March state election a...

The Australian government expanded the Low-cost Essentials Subsidy Scheme, cutting the price of 30 staple items by up to 50% to boost food security in remote Indigenous communities. The scheme began i...

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...

Queensland faces a growing skin cancer care burden with a regional workforce gap. A Queensland team used supply, demand and needs based modelling to estimate the number of skin cancer clinicians and t...

More than $61.4 million was paid to general practices in the first Bulk Billing Practice Incentive Program round. Payments went to 2,949 practices out of 3,251 registered, covering November 1 to Decem...

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced a 739.2 million dollar investment to boost the treatment and rehabilitation of veterans. The plan also funds administrative tasks tied to compensation clai...

Australia’s Commonwealth released the Closing the Gap 2025 Annual Report and the 2026 Implementation Plan. The release shows mixed progress, with only four of nineteen targets on track for the 2031 de...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners reports a record start to GP training in 2026. A total of 1772 doctors will begin general practice training this year. Of them, 161 will spend at...

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 Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has a Fellow Support Service to help doctors after they gain a Fellowship. The program offers advice, education, supervision and mentoring...