20 Feb 2023
RACGP to help lead mental health reform
President Dr Nicole Higgins will be attending a special workshop alongside Ministers Mark Butler and Emma McBride to propose solutions involving general practice.
16 Feb 2023
RACGP backs NACCHO’s pharmacy concerns
Both organisations warn that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s care will be compromised by pharmacist prescribers.
16 Feb 2023
‘A cultural issue’: Minister calls for attitude shift to general practice
‘We’ve got to get away from this idea that general practice is somehow a B grade,’ the Federal Health and Aged Care Minister has said.
15 Feb 2023
Crackdown on ‘unsafe’ online prescribing underway
The Medical Board of Australia has already imposed restrictions on some individuals against issuing prescriptions through telehealth.
14 Feb 2023
AHPRA proposes changes to health practitioner regulation
The planned reforms would increase the decision making role of community members on practitioner misconduct committees.
14 Feb 2023
Flying doctors suggest rural health fixes
RFDS report shows stark lack of rural health access, with the commonest emergency presentation being one that primary care could help prevent.
13 Feb 2023
GPs back renewed push for extended dispensing rules
It has been nearly five years since the PBAC recommended increasing maximum dispensed quantities of prescriptions.
13 Feb 2023
Laying future foundations through training and research
Training and research remains ‘critical’ to securing the general practice workforce, says Melbourne University’s Dean of Medicine.
13 Feb 2023
Call for new CDC to fast-track disease prevention strategies
Thinktank says plans for a Centre for Disease Control should have an emphasis on preventing chronic conditions, a view echoed by the college.
10 Feb 2023
The true cost of a trivial complaint: RACGP Vice President speaks out
Dr Bruce Willett sums up the stress, legal back and forth, and lost time involved in a patient complaint that came to nothing after 10 months.