14 Jan 2025
Dire 60-day script predictions fail to materialise
As well as saving patients money, more pharmacies have opened than have closed since the policy first came into effect in September 2023.
13 Jan 2025
Survey feeds concern over costs for GP care
A Cleanbill report has indicated falling bulk-billing rates and growing fees for non-concession cardholders – but officials have queried its findings.
13 Jan 2025
‘Promising’ new statistical tool predicts dementia onset
Early research shows the model can predict onset more accurately than similar tools, with hopes it will give patients more time to make decisions.
13 Jan 2025
Concern psychiatrist walk-out will trigger mental health crisis
How will the mass resignation of 200 public health psychiatrists in NSW affect GPs already managing high demand for mental health consults?
10 Jan 2025
HealthLink pauses fee rollout
The introduction of new costs for GPs to use HealthLink has been put on hold with the provider saying it will ‘undergo a period of consultation’.
10 Jan 2025
Grants entice 400 graduates into general practice
Two thirds of applicants said the $40,000 Victorian Government grants influenced their decision to enrol in GP training in the state.
10 Jan 2025
Japanese encephalitis virus spreads to new areas
With the virus detected in NSW and Victoria and the season’s first human case, GPs should be prepared for patients asking about protection.
09 Jan 2025
Expansion of physician assistants considered
The Queensland Health boss says he is ‘exploring opportunities to grow our traditional workforce’ but this has sparked GPs’ concern over scope of practice changes.
09 Jan 2025
Should Australia be worried about HMPV?
As cases of human metapneumovirus surge overseas, what do Australian GPs need to know when concerned patients walk through their door?
09 Jan 2025
Quetiapine shortage ‘frankly unacceptable’
Some doses of the antipsychotic medication could be in shortage until July, leaving both patients and GPs ‘alarmed’.