GP26 abstract submissions are now open for presentations at the RACGP's flagship general practice conference, scheduled for 20 to 22 November at the Adelaide Convention Centre on Kaurna Country. Submi...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners welcomed 40 new Fellows at a Canberra ceremony, with the cohort including two Rural Generalists. The event, hosted by RACGP NSW & ACT, marked thei...
The Future of Asthma group has launched a reform blueprint for asthma management, authored with involvement from RACGPs respiratory medicine specialists led by Dr Kerry Hancock. It argues Australia’s...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners will steer the development of a nationally consistent urgent care standard. This follows the federal government confirming urgent care clinics wil...
In 2026 more doctors are using social media to educate, advocate and connect, but online activity remains subject to professional standards. The author warns that social platforms are public, permanen...
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Clinicians in the United States as a free option for now, pitched as a secure clinical reasoning partner that draws on trusted medical sources to help with patient cons...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has outlined funding requests ahead of the 2026–27 Federal Budget. It is asking for a $20 million federal investment in 2026–27 and $160.4 million...
Work on the national primary care data collection has begun, but the RACGP is pushing back on how much influence general practice will have in the data governance framework. The plan would assemble a...
Cancer Australia Research Initiative has announced $15 million in funding over three years for seven research projects aimed at early onset cancer. The funding, provided by Cancer Australia and the Na...
The government has confirmed a further $1.8 billion over five years from 2025–26 to keep urgent care clinics open, with $525.6 million a year from 2030–31. The UCC network has grown to about 135 clini...
Go Gentle Australia released its annual report card Voluntary Assisted Dying in Residential Aged Care Homes, examining 70 of Australia’s largest aged care providers across about 130 000 beds. The stud...
Urgent care clinics will become a permanent pillar of Medicare after the government announced a funding package worth $1.8 billion over five years from 2025-26, with ongoing funding above $525 million...
Healthed conducted a survey of almost 400 GPs who moved to universal bulk billing after the government’s new incentives last year. Among respondents, 1% of male GPs said their personal income had sign...
GP supervision is the missing piece in the funding package. The government committed about $8.3 billion to bulk billing the PIP and expanding incentives, plus $607 million to grow the GP workforce. Al...
The GP gender pay gap is back in the spotlight as policy changes prompt questions about its trajectory. DoHDA and the Federal Health and Ageing Minister face scrutiny after coverage of reforms such as...
A landmark study led by the University of Queensland analysed data from more than two million women and girls aged 10–59 across 90 countries to measure major depressive disorder in the peripartum peri...
In March the PBAC reversed its November plan to remove GP prescribing rights for preservative-free eye drops. The decision followed opposition from the RACGP, which argued access would be hardest in r...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is inviting member nominations for a vacancy on the RACGP Expert Committee – Standards for General Practices (REC–SGP). Expressions of interest sh...
The World Health Organization validated Australia as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. The milestone follows years of community-led work, with trachoma prevalence in at-risk Abori...
GPs under NDIS are pressuring for formal recognition as medical specialists within the disability scheme. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners lodged a submission with the joint stand...
