21 Feb 2024
New tools to help health professionals with palliative care conversations
Doctors, nurses, and other health professionals needing to have difficult conversations with patients and loved ones about death and dying now have new resources to support them.
21 Feb 2024
TGA launches medicine shortage investigation
GPs are being urged to have their say as part of the inquiry, which aims to ‘better prevent, manage, and communicate shortages’.
21 Feb 2024
Sleep health advice ‘not just for patients with insomnia’
Rather, it should be a part of chronic disease prevention and management plans, Chair of the RACGP’s Healthy Habits program says.
21 Feb 2024
Updates to the HTA Policy and Methods Review Reference Committee – 21 February 2024
Updates to the HTA Policy and Methods Review Reference Committee – 21 February 2024
21 Feb 2024
Funding needed to ‘help share the workload’: RACGP
Commonwealth support should be funnelled into expanding general practices to include multidisciplinary care teams, according to a college submission.
21 Feb 2024
RACGP stands up for climate action
The college will take its fight for environmental action directly to Parliament House when it advocates at a Duty of Care Bill public hearing.
21 Feb 2024
Have your say on the role of consumers in accreditation
The Accreditation Committee (the committee) invites you to give feedback on its draft proposed principles (the principles) to strengthen the involvement of consumers in accreditation.
21 Feb 2024
Study busts smoking population myths
The first national profile of Australia’s 2.5 million smokers shows many are educated, employed and do not have poor mental health.
21 Feb 2024
$50 million for the world’s most advanced artificial heart
The Australian Government is investing $50 million in technology that has the potential to half deaths from heart failure globally. Funding is from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF).
21 Feb 2024
$93 million for research into improved health for children, young people and the aged, medical devices, mental health and stem cell therapies
Applications are open for 5 new Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) grant opportunities.