Booster take-up disparities widen Striking contrasts in booster coverage are emerging in different local government areas. What can be done to address the inequities?
Government responds to RACGP calls, expedites emergency provider numbers The move will ensure GPs can continue to practise and provide care for people in disaster-affected areas.
‘Doctors might be intimidated’: GP blasts NSW complaints body A single anonymous complaint was enough for one Taree GP to receive a warning about ‘maintaining constructive communication’ in public.
GPs are not ‘self-serving’ – we are desperate The issues around attracting doctors to general practice are long-term, complex and need to be carefully managed. The last thing we need is yet another attack on GPs, writes Dr Karen Price.
Out-of-pocket costs leaving chronically ill vulnerable: Report Australian patients are paying more for healthcare than many other comparable countries, new analysis suggests. Changes have been floated, but what would they mean for general practice?
‘We need to act now’: GPs call for action on equality this IWD With the pandemic further highlighting ongoing and persistent inequality, GPs say this year’s International Women’s Day theme – #BreaktheBias – could not be more timely.
‘Devastating’: The despair of our Ukrainian GPs As war rages in Eastern Europe, the Ukrainian medical community in Australia is doing its best to offer support.
Novavax given limited approval as booster New ATAGI advice permits Novavax for third dose and encourages those who had AstraZeneca as primary course to take mRNA booster.
How many people were ‘waiting for Novavax’? The approval of Novavax was long-awaited. Now its rollout is under way, newsGP assesses what response GPs are seeing on the ground.
A quarter of the primary care nurse workforce could soon quit, survey shows Having faced a growing workload in recent years, the national data points to the longer term consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, with nurses citing exhaustion and burnout.