11 Jun 2024
‘You don’t have to be sick to see a GP’
This Men’s Health Week, a GP with a special interest says normalising consistent health checks with a regular GP is key to improving outcomes.
10 Jun 2024
FNQ absorbed into ‘truly national’ GP training program
The RACGP has taken on more than 200 additional general practice registrars following JCU’s decision to step away from GP training.
10 Jun 2024
Should primary care be free for everyone?
New research has put a pricetag on offering free general practice care for all, but while seemingly within reach the authors caution any changes would also need to primary care more sustainable
07 Jun 2024
‘I’m on my knees’: GP cries out for workforce remedies
As GPs share heartbreaking stories of practice struggles and recruitment impossibilities, one fed-up doctor says action is needed to ‘build the career back up’.
07 Jun 2024
GPs’ crazy reminder to look after mental health
The medical world has come out in force to mark CrazySocks4Docs, with the RACGP using it as an opportunity to protest mandatory reporting laws.
07 Jun 2024
Renewed push for alcohol warning labels
Research suggesting fewer than one in two Australians know drinking can cause cancer has led to a call for more public awareness.
06 Jun 2024
Calls to change medical journals’ Big Tobacco policies
More than 30 leading medical journals still accept tobacco-funded research, prompting an expert to ask, ‘where do you draw the line?’
06 Jun 2024
Breast cancer detection delayed by COVID-19
The rate of metastatic breast cancer doubled after breast screening programs shut down during the pandemic.
06 Jun 2024
College backs GP access to referral-free angiography
But while supportive, the RACGP has suggested changing the new item number’s proposed wording.
06 Jun 2024
In Practice: Medicare Participation Review Committees
Nominations are open for GPs looking to help safeguard the future of Medicare and ensure users are fit to participate in the program.