The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners welcomed reforms to the Workforce Incentive Program Rural Advanced Skills stream. The changes set a GP’s total FTE as solely the service they prov...
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...
Medicare data show GP home visits have dropped 85 percent over three decades, from almost four million in 1994 to under half a million in 2024. The analysis, led by Associate Professor Joel Rhee of th...
Former Health Minister Greg Hunt addressed Australian Healthcare Week in Sydney to outline four megatrends set to redefine health systems: genomics, regenerative medicine, artificial intelligence and...
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...
At a parliamentary forum focused on ME/CFS and long covid, lawmakers, clinicians, researchers and people living with the conditions discussed reform progress and remaining gaps. The hearing highlighte...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Australian government has rolled out a series of March MBS updates. Key changes include new nationwide patient end support items that let GPs provide in person help during video sessions with non...
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...
Closing the Gap in remote Aboriginal health is not just about buildings. The federal government has allocated 144 million dollars for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation infrastructure...
Healthpoint and Whakarongorau Aotearoa in New Zealand signed a Memorandum of Understanding to formalise a long-running collaboration that guides how they help whānau find the right care at the right t...
On a long-haul flight a doctor faced a critically ill patient with an oxygen sat of 73% and a GCS of 11. Dr Jillann Farmer shares practical lessons from the event, stressing that you don’t have to be...
A nationwide retrospective study led by the ROSA Research Group analysed health outcomes for older residents in long term care across almost 3,000 Australian facilities from 2013 to 2019. The dataset...
A new app called Patient Consult Summary is being rolled out nationally. It helps clinicians turn complex clinical advice into clear, patient friendly written summaries during video calls. PCS works i...
OpenDirector’s latest snapshot places CSL chief financial officer Joy Linton and ResMed CFO Brett Sandercock among the 20 highest paid in Australia. Linton, who left the CFO role in October 2025 and n...
Dr Paul Eleftheriou from Nous Group is moving to Medibank as chief medical officer (customer). He will finish at Nous on 13 March and start at Medibank on 31 March, taking over from Dr Christopher Rob...
