Avoidable presentations clog EDs as general practice waits for funding Close to three million emergency presentations last financial year were ‘avoidable’, a Productivity Commission report has stated.
Practice Experience Program has launched to support non-VR doctors The RACGP program is designed to provide non-vocationally registered doctors with the support they need to attain Fellowship.
Future GP workforce: Strategies to get ahead of the crisis curve Examining a recent discussion warning that supply is set to worsen due to recruitment failures and the impacts of casualisation.
It takes a team to deliver quality rural maternity services Dr Ayman Shenouda outlines a possible solution to a growing issue.
GP and novelist: Dr Joanna Nell A passion for women’s health and the ageing population were catalysts for Dr Nell’s first novel.
Treating occupational cancers in general practice Even in the face of greater awareness of preventive measures, Australia’s rates of occupational cancers have not declined.
Which way forward for GP shared maternity care? Dr Wendy Burton is raising the alarm over threats to shared antenatal care.
‘The last bastion for procedural GPs is rural medicine’ GP proceduralists should head to the bush for the best professional opportunities, argues Dr Ganesan Sakarapani.
Prick and a Pint: Growing men’s health literacy, one group at a time newsGP looks at an innovative community health program that aims to empower men to take control of their own health.
GP obstetricians increasingly shut out of hospitals GP obstetrician Dr Nooshin Rasool will no longer be able to deliver her patients’ babies in hospital – and she is not alone.