AHPRA releases its annual report The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has provided facts and figures across a number of key areas of healthcare.
New funding to increase mental health support for veterans The Federal Government has announced it will commit $100,000 for a veteran mental health outreach pilot project.
RACGP backs constitutional recognition Following its endorsement of the Uluru statement, the RACGP has again lent its voice to the subject of constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia.
Calls for recognition of GPs’ role in maternity care Women’s choice is being reduced as governments and hospitals increasingly shift antenatal care away from GPs, according to the RACGP.
Hundreds of thousands of hospital admissions potentially preventable More than 715,000 Australians were admitted to hospital with potentially preventable presentations in 2016–17, according to new data from the AIHW.
November issue of Australian Journal of General Practice now available The latest issue of the Australian Journal of General Practice, the RACGP’s peer-reviewed scholarly journal, is available online.
Australia narrows life-expectancy gap Australians can expect to live more than a decade longer than the global average.
Child immunisation rates at record levels, but vaccine resistance persists The number of fully immunised Australian children continues to rise, but vaccine-resistant pockets remain throughout the country.
RACGP updates its Constitution The RACGP’s recent Annual General Meeting saw a number of changes to the college’s Constitution.