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Looming GP shortage sparks call for urgent reform

5th December 2019

Australia is headed for a shortage of more than 9000 GPs in the next decade, largely driven by restrictions on overseas…

25th November 2019

If you are a practice owner, then it’s likely you have heard someone at a practice management seminar discuss how the…

8th November 2019

It’s something we are taught from when we are very young and is a core middle-class belief: work hard, get a qualification,…

7th November 2019

Researchers may have solved the mystery of the ‘weekend effect’, where patients admitted to hospital on a weekend have a…

5th December 2019

There is a window of opportunity to act, say experts

1st November 2019

A senior obstetrician is under fire over comments he’s made that the upswing in female doctors makes the medical profession…

4th October 2019

The number of medical students who want to become GPs has dropped to its lowest level since 2012, a national survey suggests…

16th September 2019

The demands imposed on thousands of doctors who pledged to practise in rural communities in return for a medical school…