Australia is wrestling with how precision health will reshape digital care. The piece explains that moving to a personalised agenda will expose gaps in how Australia handles complex data flows and lar...
The Australian Digital Health Agency, in partnership with La Trobe University, has launched Digital Health Foundations for Nursing and Midwifery: Competency Preparation for Placement, a free online co...
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...
The RACGP NSW/ACT has released its NSW pre-budget submission for 2026-27, urging the government to lift primary care funding. A core ask is a 40 per cent rise in Medicare rebates for Level C and D GP...
The rural town of Kimba in South Australia remains without a permanent GP three years after the council invested in a $1 million medical centre and two rent-free homes to attract a doctor. The Kimba D...
RACGP led University of Origin analysis shows Monash University and James Cook University trained the most future GPs and rural generalists last year. Across 21 universities, 1226 graduates began gene...
The HSE and University of Galway’s HIVE Lab kicked off a national rollout of the All-Islands Health Virtual Care Programme, extending to 12 offshore islands. Over the next two years, a universal digit...
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...
The federal government has begun rolling out a set of incentives for GP registrars this semester. Registrars starting community-based training can access a salary incentive of up to 30,000, paid in in...
The Queensland government unveiled a legislative plan in February to permit experienced paramedics to work in remote hospitals and health services. The reform, set to take effect on 1 April, allows re...
Seniru Mudannayake, president of the Australian Medical Students Association, outlined the toll of placement poverty on medical students. He described juggling study with part time work to cover rent...
UK researchers report that pairing an AI driven analysis with an electronic stethoscope can identify clinically significant valvular heart disease more quickly and cheaply. In a multi centre study, 17...
An updated analysis from RACGP and ACRRM tracks where medical graduates begin GP training in 2025. The dataset covers 1226 GPs-in-training who commenced the Australian GP Training pathway that year. M...
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...
Emerging Minds and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners have teamed up to offer free accredited training for GPs on child mental health. The programme includes an assessment toolkit,...
A new Single Employer Model SEM GP training trial has launched in Charleville, a rural Queensland town about 700 kilometres west of Brisbane. Led by an Aboriginal community controlled health organisat...
RACGP has put forward the Pathways to Rural budget proposal. It would fund metropolitan GPs to work in rural practices for four weeks each year to build ongoing relationships with patients and communi...
At Parliament House in Canberra, a two day summit brought together the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges and all 16 specialist colleges with Ministers Butler and McBride, the National Rural He...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is pressing for a funded Pathways to Rural program. City GPs would spend four weeks a year in rural practices, with the aim of boosting rural GP c...
