The international outbreak has prompted calls for free vaccines to be available for Victorian kids.

The RACGP’s annual survey has become ‘critical’ to helping GPs, and the college, shape the future of general practice.

The Australia-first guideline offers GPs practical advice, covering risk assessments, follow-up care, and evidence-based treatments.

A new study has found historic vaccines can generate broad immune responses against future influenza strains.

The RACGP says the creation of an expert advisory group must inform a ‘considered, evidence-based approach’ to the scope expansion.

The RACGP warns Australia must learn from the change, which forces UK GPs to seek advice before referring to hospital specialists.

Amid a widening rollout of the needle-free vaccine, GPs already administering the treatment say it’s been a ‘really exciting’ and practical change to everyday practice.

One GP couple has shared insights into their life and experiences as rural doctors – working in all corners of Western Australia.

It will allow patients to drop their used pens at pharmacies in a bid to reduce millions of products being dumped into landfill.

‘Of course local MPs are speaking to doctors in their communities,’ says Mark Butler, but it is a move labelled ‘political theatre’ by one GP.

GPs can expect questions from patients following the launch of a new support package, amid allegations against Dr Simon Gordon.

The influential committee is considering expanding Bexsero on the National Immunisation Program.

The RACGP says a plan to publish individual GP fees could create misleading comparisons, influence billing behaviour, and impact practice sustainability.

Reinforcing the central role of general practice in vaccine uptake, it includes resources for MPs to share in local communities.

Experts say the TGA’s provisional approval of the new indication could help slow disease progression, alongside other early intervention strategies.

Patients can access the free Government telehealth service with no GP referral – but there are queries about how it will work.

GPs, paediatricians and politicians joined together at the RACGP event to share knowledge in a new era for ADHD treatment.

More than 360 doctors have begun their training in the state, with 30% choosing to train in rural and regional locations.

Amid a shakeup of billing models in the ACT, the college warns a ‘short-sighted policy distorting the market is the last thing the community deserves’.

Cost is the ‘fault line’ in Australia’s health system, says a new report. An RACGP expert says better targeted funding is needed.