The Thriving Kids Advisory Group has published its final report and backs a Medicare funded health check for three year olds. The move is part of the Thriving Kids model of care and comes after the go...
National digital health strategies in the Asia-Pacific struggle to turn commitments on gender equality, equity and human rights into real plans. In Vietnam, policy emphasises digital health and gender...
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia spent 600,170 on political donations in the 2024-25 financial year, up from about 400,000 the year before. It remains the health sector’s top political donor, outpacing...
Apple Watch hypertension alerts are live across Australia. The feature runs in the background and uses the optical heart sensor to track how blood vessels respond to each heartbeat. It analyses data o...
Australia’s Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs will run a wide review of how recent Medicare reforms affect rural primary care. The inquiry will assess the 1 November 2025 changes...
The federal government has announced a two stage reform to how medicines are dispensed and tracked in Australia. In the first stage, all online and telehealth prescribers will upload details of a pati...
Birregurra, a rural Victoria town of about 1000 people, currently has only one GP at Birregurra Medical Centre. The clinic sits roughly two hours from Melbourne, and Dr Jared Kilday is leading a push...
Abortion is legal across Australia since 2023, but access remains uneven and expensive. The federal government has spent about $573 million on women’s health in the last year, funding contraception, m...
St Vincents Health Network Sydney has appointed Dr Chris Robinson as National Chief Medical Officer. He previously led as Medibank’s Chief Medical Officer for Customer, where he helped redesign mental...
Charles Darwin University is rolling out a new medical program in the Northern Territory. The Menzies Medical Program will welcome a first cohort of 42 students on 9 February, including two Aboriginal...
The Australian government will create a National Medicines Record within My Health Record. All prescribers will be required to record medicines related information, including drugs dispensed via teleh...
Australia is moving to a national medicines record that ties scripts to the My Health Record. Health minister Mark Butler announced two major reforms after a preventable overdose death: online telehea...
The federal government has announced reforms to create a National Medicines Record. This will give patients, prescribers and pharmacists a complete medicines history across digital health tools. As a...
Birregurra, a small rural town about 130 kilometres southwest of Melbourne, has a population around 1000 and currently relies on a single GP, Dr Jared Kilday. He is trying to attract another doctor to...
Australia’s Healthdirect launched 1800Medicare at the start of the year as part of a federal pledge to improve Healthdirect services under one national system. The new branding is still led by Healthd...
Australia is expanding access to after-hours care through 1800MEDICARE, a government-funded virtual GP service that launched on 1 January. The program is operated by Healthdirect Australia and funded...
Telehealth became widespread in Australia as COVID-19 hit, with more than 90% of general practices adopting the approach in the early months of the pandemic. In 2020-21, telehealth accounted for about...
The Therapeutic Goods Administration released its Compliance Principles for 2026–27. It sets out how the agency will monitor and enforce rules for therapeutic goods. The approach is designed to be agi...
A randomised clinical trial was run across seven government-designated rehabilitation centres in Shenzhen, China. It enrolled 154 parents who were the primary caregivers of children aged three to nine...
AI powered consumer health tools are set to reshape Australia’s health sector. ChatGPT Health is in trial with selected users, and Claude Health is expected to launch soon. The industry has long resis...
