Re-elected RACGP Censor-in-Chief ‘very grateful’ for support Dr Tess van Duuren will provide academic leadership, as well as strategic and policy advice on educational matters for another two years.
In Practice: Calls for business viability representatives The RACGP is seeking members to help inform the development of its general practice business and financial viability work.
Chance to honour outstanding rural healthcare Nominations for individuals or teams ‘doing something remarkable’ in the rural and remote healthcare space are underway.
Queensland offers $40k carrot to attract new GPs The Government has unveiled a $20 million program it hopes will encourage 500 aspiring GPs to undertake training in the Sunshine State.
In Practice: Medicare Participation Review Committees Nominations are open for GPs looking to help safeguard the future of Medicare and ensure users are fit to participate in the program.
What GPs are missing in Indigenous suicide A First Nations psychologist shares advice on how to tackle the youth suicide crisis and says GPs are often ‘told to do the wrong things’.
RACGP launches new Reconciliation Action Plan The college has set goal to create a GP profession ‘free from racism’ and reaffirms its support of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Doctors establish ‘parallel health system’ for those fleeing Gaza A network of 500 medical professionals has rallied to rollout free healthcare to refugees unable to access Medicare, creating lifesaving change.
Calls to change ad hoc assault laws to protect GPs nationally NSW politicians have acknowledged GPs as ‘frontline health workers’ in assault laws. But why have these laws not been rolled out nationally?
New tool could ‘change the trajectory’ of Indigenous heart consults Heart disease is the leading cause of preventable death for First Nations people, but there is hope a new GP resource could help address that.