‘A step backwards’: Another pharmacy pilot made permanent The initiative continues to cement itself into Australian healthcare, with a Victorian pilot both expanded and made permanent, but the RACGP warns of compromised patient safety.
‘Community health is desperate for support’: GP’s plea to policymakers For more than two decades Dr Kate Walker has been treating society’s most vulnerable. She says the situation has never been more challenging.
Most health departments not tracking COVID home deaths Only one state health department publicly releases the number of COVID deaths that occur in the home, with the majority limiting information to hospital fatalities.
RACGP and GP Synergy confirm strategic partnership Constitutional changes voted on by GP Synergy’s membership will help to strengthen the future of GP education and training in NSW and the ACT.
GP push to spread clear COVID messaging With hospitals and general practices under increasing strain, is the message about managing COVID-19 at home cutting through?
GP Synergy delays partnership vote GP Synergy’s Board decided to adjourn a planned EGM to give a small number of members more time to consider the proposal.
NSW GPs on watch as hospitals placed on red alert In a possible sign of things to come, a surge in Omicron cases means low-risk patients will undergo ‘self-care’ in the community.
RACGP restructures following member feedback The college has enacted a plan to revamp sections of the organisation in what it says is an effort to better serve members.
RACGP seeks formal mandate to bring training back to the college Members are being asked to vote on the profession-led, community-based training resolution at the upcoming Annual General Meeting.
Post-vaccination life ‘is not going to be a pre-COVID experience’ Australia needs to ‘redefine what freedom looks like’ and formalise nationally consistent standards on containment safeguards like ventilation and mask-wearing, GPs and public health experts have stated.