The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners conducted a regional Victoria tour that visited Ararat, Beaufort and Ballarat to meet local GPs, healthcare teams and community organisations. RAC...
Australia's leading general practice bodies have urged formal recognition and funding for GP clinical supervision. The National Council of Primary Care Doctors, a coalition that includes RACGP, publis...
The NSW Government will allow pharmacists to prescribe contraceptives to women over 18 without a GP visit as part of a 4.5 million investment. About 60 pharmacies are expected to be ready to start, an...
Western Australia has launched what is described as the country’s most extensive needle-free flu vaccination program for children, with 130000 FluMist doses to be available for GPs and other immuniser...
The Federal Government has confirmed AGPT training places for 2027, with total spots exceeding two thousand. The RACGP will offer up to 1694 places for general practice and Rural Generalist training n...
A Queensland University of Technology study using asthma admissions data from 2000 to 2019 shows hospitalisations in children vary by climate region, season and age. The hot desert and arid zones reco...
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has issued a public warning about unregulated peptides used outside clinical oversight. It cites examples including BPC-157, GHK-Cu, TB-500, retatrutide and CJC-12...
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has issued a warning about unapproved peptide products being marketed to patients. The alert cites online sellers and influencers promoting peptides with claims of...
GP training numbers are up at least 20% this year, yet the GP supervisor workforce remains under supported. A rare joint statement from the National Council of Primary Care Doctors urges governments t...
South Australia is piloting a coordinated push to raise flu vaccination rates. General practitioners joined SA Health officials as Health and Wellbeing Minister Blair Boyer and Chief Public Health Off...
An online analysis from Cleanbill shows bulk-billing uptake accelerating, with the strongest gains in rural and remote clinics. The study measures changes in fully bulk-billing clinics across Modified...
On 13 April 2026, RACGP's General Practice Mental Health Standards Collaboration launched the Specific Populations Resource Hub to help GPs deliver tailored mental health care. The hub includes five r...
AMA NSW has presented to the NSW Youth Justice Inquiry, calling for a needs-based support model and a whole-of-government approach to curb youth contact with the justice system. The submission highlig...
Cleanbill released a geographic breakdown of self-reported bulk-billing data gathered between November and mid-December 2025, in the weeks after universal bulk billing became a requirement under the b...
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has added sexual misconduct findings to public registers for 107 practitioners in its first round of landmark reforms. Of these, 86 are cancelled pract...
A National Asthma Council Australia initiative released five information sheets to help GPs apply the latest Australian Asthma Handbook guidance. These sheets provide quick, patient-friendly messaging...
AHPRA has begun permanently publishing sexual misconduct findings on practitioners’ public registrations. In the first tranche, 107 registrations were updated, with about 50 of the cases involving doc...
Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration has moved to remove Andrographis paniculata from the list of permitted ingredients in listed medicines after a pattern of anaphylaxis reports. Andrographis...
InsideOut Institute's GP Hub has reached a new milestone with 6484 users nationwide, including 3541 GPs, less than two years after launch. The tool is designed to streamline eating disorder care in ge...
From 1 April 2026 the National Health Service made it mandatory for GPs to obtain advice from a consultant or senior clinician before referring patients to hospital specialists. The Advice and Guidanc...
