RACGP launches first advocacy plan The inaugural plan was launched at the Practice Owners Conference, and acts as a ‘compass’ to guide the college’s advocacy work.
Call to action: Help shape the future of general practice GPs are being urged to add their ideas to a new Scope of Practice submission, as the RACGP fights against a ‘broken’ healthcare future.
RACGP joins united stand against vaping The college has teamed up with peak health bodies to support proposed new laws aimed at stifling the product’s widespread availability.
GPs central to ‘best value for money’ healthcare Australia’s health sector is among the most productive in the world, but it is quality improvements, not cost reductions, driving its growth.
Scope review creating ‘McMedicine’: RACGP President The investigation’s latest report left Dr Nicole Higgins ‘angry and devalued’, as it ‘trades off quality and safety for convenience’.
Have your say on the state of general practice GPs can take part in the Health of the Nation survey to inform the RACGP’s top-level advocacy and shape the future of general practice.
‘Long overdue’: Aged Care Act delay worries GPs Leaked documents have suggested incoming aged care reform could be delayed significantly, as GPs struggle with existing red tape.
‘Devalued’ GPs rail against task substitution in Scope review The role of general practice is oversimplified and the profession misunderstood, according to a scathing RACGP Scope of Practice submission.
Recreational vaping ban one step closer The RACGP has backed a new Commonwealth plan which would make it illegal to import, make, or sell the product, except for medical reasons.
Drug survey backs RACGP’s calls for harm reduction The college’s Addiction Medicine Chair believes the results should be used as leverage to better support GPs providing care in this area.