Greg Hunt proposes changes to reporting scheme to help address medicine shortages The Federal Health Minister wants to make the reporting scheme mandatory rather than voluntary, with legal definitions of medicine shortage and penalties for non-compliance.
Elder abuse: Identifying the signs in general practice The recent World Elder Abuse Awareness Day presented an opportunity to raise awareness about this complex and often hidden form of family violence.
The RACGP’s Green Book: Putting prevention into practice The new third edition of the RACGP’s Putting prevention into practice: Guidelines for the implementation of prevention in the general practice setting is now available, providing GPs and practice teams with a framework for implementing preventive medicine.
Family violence among patients from multicultural backgrounds: How GPs can help newsGP spoke to three experienced healthcare professionals about how GPs can respond to patients from immigrant/refugee backgrounds who are experiencing family violence.
June issue of Australian Journal of General Practice now available The latest issue of the Australian Journal of General Practice, the RACGP’s peer-reviewed scholarly journal, is now available online.
When is the treatment worse than the disease? New research shows GPs can help patients avoid opioids for chronic non-cancer pain. Dr Hester Wilson, Chair of the RACGP’s Specific Interests Addiction Medicine network, considers how.
GPs can be key in helping multicultural women who are experiencing family violence Women from multicultural communities face many barriers in dealing with family violence, but GPs can help.
GPs urged to tell patients about the ‘cardiac blues’ Most patients who develop a sudden heart problem experience some form of emotional, cognitive and behavioural changes. Now a heart health researcher is behind a renewed push urging GPs to warn their patients about it.
Genetics and ethics: Do doctors have a duty of care to a patient’s relatives? Dr Chris Hogan writes for newsGP about the ethics of informing a patient’s family members of a heritable disease.
Unfounded claims about complementary medicine put patients in danger: RACGP Proposed legislation to legalise un-scientific claims on complementary medicines will place Australian patients at risk and must not come into force, Chair of the RACGP Expert Committee – Quality Care Dr Evan Ackermann told newsGP.