GPs in Katherine floods led a rapid primary care response as the town faced its worst floods in 28 years. Dr Karin Jodlowski-Tan, in a clinical governance role at Wurli-Wurlinjang Health Service, help...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has urged a major software overhaul to embed social determinants of health from a patient’s first contact and to continue tracking them through ca...
AHPRA has begun an end-to-end review of its notifications system to guard against misuse and to keep processes human-centric, according to CEO Justin Untersteiner during a March keynote. The effort si...
The RACGPs Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health faculty is inviting members to share what working with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Health Practitioners in prima...
Rising fuel prices are already impacting GP care, with rural clinics feeling the pinch the most. Unleaded petrol has increased by almost 40 percent and diesel by over 66 percent in under a month, acco...
An AIHW analysis links death records with the 2016 and 2022 censuses to identify groups at greatest risk of dying from skin cancer. This evidence informs Australia’s Roadmap for Targeted Skin Cancer S...
Primary care commissioning in Australia is described as a contract exercise, with KPIs and monitoring schedules. The author argues this transactional approach clashes with how real primary care operat...
The Black Dog Institute's Future Proofing Study, launched in 2019, followed 6,388 students from 134 Australian schools starting in Year 8 for five years to track mental health trajectories. It found t...
In a discussion with an AI strategist, the future path for doctors in AI-driven medicine was laid out. The key point is that diagnosis could shift from episodic clinic visits to patterns learned from...
Researchers at Flinders University tested a vision-enabled AI scribe that uses Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and Google Gemini to document medication histories. In a proof-of-concept with 10 pharmacists...
RACGP president Dr Michael Wright and fellow primary care leaders joined hundreds in Canberra for a two day conference hosted by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. The event, titled Inte...
The Australian General Practice Research Foundation has opened two GP led grant rounds. The Ageing Well Research Grant offers $150,000 to GP led research addressing ageing, aged care and end‑of‑life c...
A Queensland study from the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology examined GP participation in voluntary assisted dying in Queensland. Twelve Queensland-base...
The Department of Health Disability and Ageing opened a February consultation on modernising the GP to hospital based specialist referral ecosystem. The RACGP published terms for indefinite referrals...
Melbourne researchers at Monash University conducted what is described as a first-of-its-kind study on ADHD in women. The cross-sectional online survey ran from June to November 2023 and involved 600...
In New South Wales a record number of doctors started GP training in 2026, with 530 aspiring GPs entering the AGPT program. That is a 27 percent rise on 2025. A rural training pathway attracted 255 tr...
A targeted Stop Syphilis campaign has been launched to improve GP confidence in testing for syphilis as Australia confronts a rising outbreak. It follows a survey of more than 800 Australian health wo...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has taken a cautious stance on indefinite referrals as the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing weighs modernising the referral system. The...
A coalition led by the Juvenile Arthritis Foundation Australia and the Australian Paediatric Rheumatology Group, with more than 20 national health organisations, has renewed a push during Juvenile Art...
The Therapeutic Goods Administration is asking GPs and patients not to stockpile medicines as Australia-bound shipments are being rerouted due to the Iran conflict. The regulator says it is actively m...
