30 Oct 2024
COVID inquiry validates GP workforce impacts
The long-awaited report details Australia’s pandemic response, confirming that GPs must be central to future planning and not left in the dark.
30 Oct 2024
What’s holding back your medical practice’s growth?
SPONSORED: As demand for healthcare grows, the key to avoiding problems is identifying where operational inefficiency is holding you back.
29 Oct 2024
‘Never been a more important time to get involved’
The RACGP’s Advocate Network now has 48 trained GPs nationwide, and every new member ‘strengthens the ability to influence change’.
30 Oct 2024
Preventable chronic diseases need ‘urgent’ intervention
Alarming new research shows the socioeconomic health gap is widening, leaving GPs to navigate systems that ‘do not account for complexity’.
29 Oct 2024
Access barriers drive low kids’ vaccination for third year
As national child vaccination coverage shows no sign of increase, GP experts renew calls to combat access issues and vaccine inequity.
29 Oct 2024
The silent struggle: GPs and the workers’ compensation system
Passionate about supporting injured workers, we must address challenges faced by GPs interacting with work injury schemes, writes Dr Steven Kaye.
28 Oct 2024
Medical devices impacted by 3G shutdown
GPs are being urged to speak to their patients and take ‘necessary precautions’ as essential devices and alarms could be affected.
28 Oct 2024
Do IUDs cause breast cancer? Here’s what the evidence says
A study has found a link between the devices and breast cancer, and while the research is important, it may be causing unnecessary worry.
28 Oct 2024
UTI pharmacy prescribing goes nationwide
The initiative can now be accessed across Australia, leading a furious RACGP President to say, ‘that’s just not good medicine’.
25 Oct 2024
Medical Dean’s parting words of wisdom
Professor Richard Murray has spent the last 20 years at the forefront of medical education, his advice is to ‘follow what has meaning’.