29 Feb 2024

In Practice: RACGP Foundation grants now open

More than $700,000 in funding is being made available to support upcoming general practice research projects.

29 Feb 2024

PSR boss: ‘We never make assumptions’

Once referred to as a ‘star chamber’, the Government agency is under new leadership and taking steps to ensure all practitioners feel heard.

29 Feb 2024

Drug survey backs RACGP’s calls for harm reduction

The college’s Addiction Medicine Chair believes the results should be used as leverage to better support GPs providing care in this area.

29 Feb 2024

PBS subsidy arrangements for gliclazide 30 mg tablets SSSI

PBS subsidy arrangements for gliclazide 30 mg tablets SSSI

29 Feb 2024

Vapes for nicotine cessation: Who, What and How?

The AMA provides members with a summary of the recent TGA/RACGP webinar offering guidance for doctors on the prescribing of e-cigarettes for nicotine cessation.

29 Feb 2024

AMA stands with Senator and allies for ban on genetic tests in life insurance

The AMA President joined Senator David Pocock and Ms Kylea Tink MP to advocate for a total ban on the use of adverse genetic test results for insurance underwriting.

29 Feb 2024

Are you ready to be inspired? Register now for the AMA24 National Conference

The AMA’s National Conference is back this year as AMA24 and we want you to help shape the event.

29 Feb 2024

Nurse cancelled and disqualified from applying for registration for six months

A South Australian nurse who stole a prescription pad and forged prescriptions has had her registration cancelled and been disqualified from applying for registration for six months.

28 Feb 2024

Campaign urges patients to let us know if they can’t make outpatient appointment

The Department of Health has introduced a campaign to raise awareness of the issue of public outpatient appointments going unattended, encouraging Tasmanians to let clinics know if they are unable to make it.

28 Feb 2024

GP banned until 2028 for persistent professional misconduct

A doctor has been reprimanded, banned from providing health services and disqualified from applying for registration until 2028 for providing sub-standard, potentially unsafe care over more than a decade.