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Calls to address ‘pervasive’ health challenges for adolescents

Calls to address ‘pervasive’ health challenges for adolescents

One billion teens are now at risk of poor health in the next five years, highlighting what one GP expert says is a ‘generation in crisis’.


GPs recognised for mental health leadership

GPs recognised for mental health leadership

On World Family Doctor Day, the RACGP is celebrating GPs as frontline healthcare champions, and is urging doctors to prioritise their own wellbeing.


In Practice: Calls to join mentoring program

In Practice: Calls to join mentoring program

Applications are open for the RACGP program that aims to connect GPs, focusing on wellbeing, collegiality and career development.


Sixty-day scripts slow to find favour: Study

Sixty-day scripts slow to find favour: Study

With a significantly lower-than-expected uptake, an RACGP expert says this could be caused by software impediments, complexity over medication eligibility, and patient views.


‘A wake-up call’: GPs issued warning over semaglutide prescribing

‘A wake-up call’: GPs issued warning over semaglutide prescribing

The DoHAC has delivered ‘education letters’ to more than 1000 doctors found to be prescribing the medication under the PBS, but failing to follow the criteria.


Obesity management needs medications on PBS: RACGP

Obesity management needs medications on PBS: RACGP

The college’s new obesity position statement calls for extra funding to treat the complex condition and for care to be made affordable for more patients.


IWD: ‘Every woman can find her tribe to cheer her on’

IWD: ‘Every woman can find her tribe to cheer her on’

One female GP draws on her global experiences to achieve equality, ahead of the RACGP’s International Women’s Day event series.


In Practice: Call to join funding reform working groups

In Practice: Call to join funding reform working groups

The RACGP is seeking members to join Funding and Health System Reform Working Groups on business viability and compliance.


IWD: The fight for better breast care

IWD: The fight for better breast care

Ahead of International Women’s Day, one GP tells why she is committed to improving access to breast imaging in Tasmania.


WHO launches global encephalitis policy

WHO launches global encephalitis policy

The release comes as one GP expert says ‘it’s very likely that Japanese encephalitis is now endemic in Australia’.


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