More than 250 GP training places remain empty — compared with last year’s shortfall of 82 — as the number of junior doctors applying for GP training plummets. Just 1749 doctors…
ATAGI has green-lit an extra COVID-19 booster for all adults, regardless of how many vaccine doses they have received already, to increase protection before winter.…
A small shire in WA’s Wheatbelt region may have broken records by offering prospective GPs almost $1 million a year in pay and benefits. Quairading shire is a two-hour drive…
Patients with treatment-resistant depression or PTSD could soon gain access to psilocybin and MDMA through authorised psychiatrists following a surprise TGA decision. Last week, the…
The RACGP has criticised a push for MBS-funded lipoprotein(a) testing to identify patients at elevated risk of heart disease, warning the proposal could be outdated…
The decision to scrap Medicare funding for GP telephone consults lasting longer than 20 minutes was not evidence-based and disproportionately punished poorer patients, researchers have…
GP registrars in Tasmania will have the option of being employed by the State Government in a major expansion to the so-called single-employer model for GP…
Expired conditions and old suspensions could remain listed on doctors’ registration as part of an overhaul to AHPRA’s public register. Since 2018, the register lists any adverse…
The RACGP has scrapped plans for a computerised Key Feature Problem exam with just two weeks to spare, announcing it will stick with a paper exam after identifying a software…
Doctors are warning of potentially avoidable deaths as a growing number of maternity units divert pregnant women to different hospitals. Gladstone Hospital in central Queensland…
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