21 Feb 2025
Rural health snapshot reveals ‘shameful failure’
Urgent action is needed to bridge the health divide impacting rural communities, says the National Rural Health Alliance’s latest analysis.
21 Feb 2025
GP ‘gag clause’ for VAD to be scrapped
Victorian doctors could soon be allowed to raise voluntary assisted dying with their patients for the first time after the State Government vowed to update laws currently ‘impeding access’.
21 Feb 2025
Bringing family violence out of the shadows
Eleven years after her son was murdered, Rosie Batty will speak at a RACGP event empowering GPs to support patients experiencing abuse.
20 Feb 2025
IWD: The fight for better breast care
Ahead of International Women’s Day, one GP tells why she is committed to improving access to breast imaging in Tasmania.
20 Feb 2025
Extend and incentivise Heart Health Checks, say GPs
With Medicare funding for the program set to expire, experts have called for an extension as well as greater investment in primary care.
20 Feb 2025
‘It’s a snowball effect’: The push to Raise the Age
‘Children just hear what people tell them about themselves,’ says one GP calling for youth justice to be considered a health issue.
19 Feb 2025
In Practice: EOIs for Practice Owners Conference presentations
Expressions of interest are now open to present at the RACGP’s annual conference for current and aspiring practice owners.
19 Feb 2025
New consortium eyes primary care system reforms
Professor Michael Kidd will lead GP clinician researchers to identify ‘real work challenges and provide practical solutions’.
19 Feb 2025
WHO launches global encephalitis policy
The release comes as one GP expert says ‘it’s very likely that Japanese encephalitis is now endemic in Australia’.
19 Feb 2025
‘Overdue but welcome’ Government response to reproductive health calls
GPs could soon play a bigger role in reproductive care after the Government backed dozens of recommendations to enable greater access and affordability.