29 Oct 2023
COVID-19 update 29 September 2023
COVID Cases in SA There have been 736 new cases of COVID-19 reported in South Australia in the past week.
28 Oct 2023
Doctors send climate change message ahead of crucial UN conference
Organisations representing three million healthcare professionals have made a united call for the health risks of climate change to be addressed.
28 Oct 2023
Indigenous health panel urges GPs to call out ‘elephant in the room’
‘We need to open doors we have never opened before’, three of the world’s leading health equality advocates have said.
27 Oct 2023
Medical practitioner reprimanded and condition imposed due to medical certificates
A tribunal has reprimanded a general practitioner and imposed a condition that requires quarterly auditing of his practice for at least two years in relation to deficient medical records and the issuing of medical certificates.
27 Oct 2023
Hobart’s second Medicare Urgent Care Clinic set to open
Hobart’s second Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (UCC) – and the third in Tasmania – will open to patients next week.
27 Oct 2023
Lung Foundation Australia welcomes ban on engineered stone products
Lung Foundation Australia commends Safe Work Australia’s recommendation to ban the use of all engineered stone products, following the release of their report today.
27 Oct 2023
Dentist to pay $100,000 in costs, disqualified for five years
A Northern Territory former dentist has been hit with record court costs, disqualified from applying for registration for five years, and banned from working in certain health services and using specified titles and after misleading a court.
27 Oct 2023
PBAC Public Summary Documents – July 2023 meeting
PBAC Public Summary Documents – July 2023 meeting
27 Oct 2023
‘We need to get better at marketing primary care’
Professor Trish Greenhalgh told delegates at the WONCA World Conference that more needs to be done to address public and political perceptions.
27 Oct 2023
‘Game changing’ extended skills recognition launched
The RACGP program is open to all Fellows with at least five years’ experience in their interest area, including dermatology and addiction.