04 Jul 2024
Patients failing at melanoma self-checks: Study
GPs continue to play a lifesaving role in cancer diagnosis, as research finds patients cannot recognise malignant melanomas on their own skin.
04 Jul 2024
Sweeping change needed amid ‘diabetes epidemic’: Inquiry
The RACGP says prevention is key, as Medicare reform, bolstered rural access, sugar taxes, and CGM subsidies were all recommended.
04 Jul 2024
Study supports benefits of rural training exposure
New research has reinforced the impact regional training pathways can have on a doctors’ longer-term work location.
03 Jul 2024
We’re not immune’: Radiologist clinics cut regional bulk billing
Jones Radiology says it had to make its regional South Australian clinics more economically viable, as bulk billing is cut in its facilities.
03 Jul 2024
GPs protest scrapped pregnancy counselling exemption
The RACGP urged the Government to reverse the removal, saying it limits access to care and creates ‘reproductive healthcare deserts’.
03 Jul 2024
GP’s administrative workload to improve after reforms greenlit
A significant assignment of benefit burden forced upon GPs will be altered, after laws to modernise and streamline bulk billing passed Parliament.
02 Jul 2024
Olaparib and anifrolumab added to PBS
The treatments for breast cancer and lupus have now been added to the scheme, alongside medicines for leukaemia and insomnia.
02 Jul 2024
RACGP slams ‘misguided’ CBD nurse-run clinic
The college says women in regional Queensland should be especially concerned over the move, which it called a ‘wastage of public funds’.
02 Jul 2024
Sugary drink tax could raise billions: Parliamentary Budget Office
Data has shed light on the significant economic benefits a proposed 20% levy could have, while GPs spruik its potential health benefits.
02 Jul 2024
Australia’s records first life expectancy drop in decades
Despite healthcare spending increases, chronic conditions present a key challenge for individuals, governments and society as a whole, the AIHW says.