GP19: Your patients, your community, your solutions From AI to pain management to running a practice, the first day of the RACGP’s conference offers GPs a comprehensive look at their profession.
Autonomous pharmacist prescribing off the table – but no barriers to restricted models The Pharmacy Board of Australia has found no obstacles to collaborative prescribing alongside medical professionals, and structured prescribing where pharmacists have limited authorisation.
Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Council responds to criticism Chair Andrew Wilson said suggestions of delayed approvals are not new and Australia has one of ‘the fastest systems in the world’.
Comment sought on WA suicide prevention plan The draft plan is described as ‘a blueprint for a government and whole-of-community approach to suicide prevention in Western Australia’.
Breast cancer screening report shows steady participation The latest monitoring report confirms just over half of Australian women aged 50–74 continue to participate in screening programs.
Priority care centres delivering positive results: SA Government SA Health has released figures on patient use of priority care centres, saying they have helped reduce emergency department overcrowding in the state.
SA bans e-cigarettes for under-18s South Australia this week passed the law to ban the advertising, promotion and sale of e-cigarette products to people under the age of 18.
New South Wales decriminalises abortion The controversial bill has finally passed the state’s lower house after several weeks of often-intense debate.
Using My Health Record data to assist with mental health issues Select SA patients will have access to ‘robust safeguards for self-management of serious mental illness’ with a new software trial.
New trial of GP-delivered urgent care set to launch in WA Western Australian patients thinking about going to emergency will next week have a new option – a GP.