07 Nov 2024
RACGP calling on members to help set agenda
What matters most at the RACGP? It’s time for GPs to have their say, with the annual Member Engagement Survey now open.
07 Nov 2024
Drug data highlights stark regional divides
Cocaine, heroin and ketamine use is higher in cities than the regions, found a report showing ‘people will use what they can access’.
06 Nov 2024
Billing education package aims to ease GPs’ ‘huge concern’
The RACGP has released a new CPD solution to support members in optimising billing strategies and address concerns around financial and business viability.
06 Nov 2024
Medicine and parenting: Significance of stress and burnout
RACGP NSW&ACT Chair Dr Rebekah Hoffman’s recently finished PhD thesis explores an all-too-familiar balancing act for many GPs.
06 Nov 2024
GP wins top award for ‘global leadership in health’
From Brisbane to New York, former UN Medical Director and Queensland GP Dr Jillann Farmer has been honoured with a UQ Alumni Award.
06 Nov 2024
‘Unprecedented’ demand on PBAC forces extra meeting
Its capacity has been exceeded by a ‘huge pipeline of new medicines’, after companies put forward a record number of submissions.
05 Nov 2024
GPs and politicians ‘need to be working together’
One of the RACGP GP Advocate Network’s newest members says being proactive to ‘protect what GPs do best’ has many rewards.
05 Nov 2024
Final Scope of Practice Review revealed
It found ‘virtually all’ health professions face barriers working to full scope, but the RACGP labelled the review ‘reductionist’, urging decisionmakers caution in considering its recommendations.
05 Nov 2024
‘Empowering’ Healthy Habits program changing lives
Doctors are urged to use the tool to help patients beyond the consulting room, with one GP saying it can ‘motivate behavioural change’.
01 Nov 2024
Record influx of new doctors mitigating GP shortage
In promising signs of regrowth for the healthcare landscape, more new doctors than ever before were registered to practise in Australia last year.