The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care released a roadmap outlining four priorities for digitally enabled care. It positions digital tools as core to clinical practice, with em...
Regulators in Australia have issued guidance warning health practitioners against treating family or close friends, except in emergencies or when no other clinician is available. The Medical Board of...
At HealthTechX Asia in Singapore, Nirvana Luckraj urged that AI in health must be governed by clinicians with real authority and built in from the start. Luckraj, director of Nirvai Global Health Advi...
RMIT University researchers have produced a flexible ultra-thin acrylic film with nanopillars that physically damage viruses on contact. In laboratory tests the film ripped apart or damaged about 94 p...
The Commonwealth bulk-billing expansion will extend incentives to all Australians from 1 November 2025, and the National Cabinet has pledged an additional $25 billion for public hospital funding over...
Medicinal cannabis prescriptions in Australia declined sharply in the second half of 2025, according to the Penington Institute. The report, using data from the Federal Department of Health, Disabilit...
In 2024-25 the Australian government released 1.4 billion dollars early from superannuation for compassionate reasons, with the program run by the Australian Taxation Office. The data show that more t...
Health NZ announced a board refresh led by Health Minister Simeon Brown, naming Mark Darrow as Chair for a three year term starting 1 May 2026. He is joined by Michael Schubert and Dr Bryan Betty on t...
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...
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...
The Northern Territory Government is advancing a plan announced in 2024 to let trained pharmacists autonomously prescribe for 21 conditions. As the expansion progresses, GPs in the NT are being consul...
Two major health groups in the Northern Territory clash over pharmacy scope reforms. The Australian Medical Association NT issued a hard line call to scrap the idea, while the RACGP NT chair urged a m...
At the Australasian Society for Cosmetic and Procedural Dermatologists Symposium in Melbourne (20–22 March 2026), three women with palmar hyperhidrosis underwent a two-session treatment combining a fr...
The government has committed to overhauling referral pathways and fixing rising non-GP specialist costs. A Grattan Institute 2025 paper proposes a digital asynchronous secondary consultation system wh...
General practitioners are increasingly facing medicolegal scrutiny over who bears responsibility for chasing test results after referrals. Anthony Mennillo, head of claims and legal services at Miga,...
In Canberra, leaders from over 50 medical colleges, associations and societies gathered to address reforms to Australia’s health system. The session was led by Dr Sanjay Hettige, chair of the AMA Coun...
Australia is accelerating toward AI enabled care as patient side tools like ChatGPT Health and Claude Health start guiding patients through symptoms and care options. The rise of online GP platforms s...
Care Pathways Australia Review, commissioned by Streamliners and conducted by Nous Group, was released in March 2026 after 42 stakeholder consultations across seven states and territories. It finds Au...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has released the program for the 2026 Practice Owners Conference, to be held at Sydney International Convention Centre on 23–24 May. The event gat...
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians has started its fifth Extraordinary General Meeting in six months to vote on removing President Jennifer Martin from both the presidency and the board chai...
