The Australian Medical Association has publicly criticised the 2025 consultation on a pharmacist prescribing endorsement within a new pharmacist capability framework. The joint effort by the Pharmacy...
Queensland’s RACGP branch has lodged a pre-budget submission with the Queensland Government to fund a GP Disaster Preparedness Program. The package would provide grants of up to $40,000 for as many as...
The Australian Digital Health Agency has created a national governance body for digital health, abbreviated as NCGC-DH, to raise clinical oversight of digital health tools. The committee will guide th...
The Australian Medical Association has urged the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing not to allow indefinite referrals. Its submission argues that extending referral periods to two years, thre...
Australia will run a 12 month trial from January 2027 that lets concession card holders access pharmacy prescribed contraceptives and allows qualified pharmacists to treat uncomplicated UTIs without a...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Tasmanian branch has urged the State Government to redirect funding from a planned expansion of a pharmacist prescribing pilot into embedding phar...
Western NSW Local Health District completed a two year evaluation of its Virtual Support remote monitoring program. The study, led by the University of Sydney School of Rural Health with the Digital H...
A rapid pre publication study in Nature Medicine shows ChatGPT Health failed to recognise emergency medical scenarios in more than half of the tested cases. Researchers used 60 medical scenarios acros...
Dr Ramya Raman’s GP opinion published on newsGP on 11 March 2026 argues that women in medicine face structural barriers rather than dramatic obstacles. She uses personal experiences to illustrate how...
The federal government has expanded access to health information in My Health Record under the Sharing by Default reforms. Patients can view limb x-ray reports as soon as they are uploaded. This week...
Australia’s Productivity Commission argues collaborative commissioning is a repeatable model in which Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks jointly plan, design, procure and evaluate car...
From July, Victorians aged 18 and over can obtain the oral contraceptive pill from 850 participating pharmacies without a prescription or direct GP input, under the Chemist Care Now program. The polic...
An Australian policy group, the Australian Institute of Health Executives, published a white paper arguing that emergency department funding must reflect patient complexity rather than throughput. EDs...
A coalition of telehealth operators and insurers has released a self-published set of National Telehealth Standards. The 34 page document outlines expectations around clinical governance, patient safe...
AI in Australian healthtech is reaching a tipping point as experts warn of risks beyond simple accuracy. A Cornell University arXiv paper on algorithmic sycophancy argues that generative AI can bias r...
The Tech Diversity Academy in Australia has launched what it bills as the country’s first AI Governance Practitioners Programme. The not-for-profit foundation focuses on education and diversity in tec...
A University of Sydney study, published in Lancet Primary Care, finds dermatology AI tools misdiagnose skin cancer in people with darker skin tones because training data lacks representation. The issu...
The National Telehealth Standards were unveiled in Parliament House by a cross‑party group of MPs, patient advocates and industry leaders. They stem from a national, patient‑led collaboration convened...
A Danish study led by psychiatrists at Aarhus University and published in Acta Psychiatr Scand analysed digital health records from about 54,000 patients with diagnosed mental illness. The team found...
A Melbourne research team has developed a portable, point-of-care test that can detect four common sexually transmitted infections in under an hour. The CRISPR-based device tests for syphilis, gonorrh...
