‘Strong perception that MBS rates are inadequate’: Inquiry An inquiry into NSW’s healthcare funding highlights the ‘excessive workload on GPs’, increasing patient complexity, and a ‘failure to embed prevention’ in health systems.
Why doesn’t Australia make more medicines? Medicine shortages in Australia are not new. So, could we prevent medication shortages if Australia made more medicines?
Fragmented care – why bother? The fragmentation of care has measurable impacts on outcomes, writes RACGP Vice President and WA Chair Dr Ramya Raman.
Chronic Wound Consumables Scheme finally on the way Launching in May, the long-awaited scheme covers the cost of products including bandages and dressings for eligible patients with diabetes.
GPs say siloed approach to healthcare delivery ‘outdated’ The RACGP and PSA are calling for funding to better integrate pharmacists into general practice, saying it will improve care and patient safety.
Diabetes prevalence underestimated in Australia: Study Researchers have suggested the number of people living with diabetes could be more than a third higher than officially registered.
Could the pharmacist in general practice model expand? A Symposium has examined how the model can work sustainably, with the RACGP saying it supports the move only if it can be made to work with funding.
Lowering your out-of-pocket expenses SPONSORED: Learn how the Doctors’ Health Fund can pay medical benefits up to the AMA list of services and fees above the MBS.
What’s in the 2025–26 Federal Budget for GPs? The RACGP has welcomed GP workforce incentives but said while ‘it’s clear general practice is central in this year’s Budget’, there are still missed opportunities.
‘Not for sale’: Australia defends PBS against US big pharma GPs welcome plans to make PBS-listed medicines even cheaper, but it comes as US pharma giants take aim at the scheme.