Mental health system a ‘vicious cycle’: Royal commission A lack of access and understanding across the system have permeated hearings to date, leading to calls for more community-based preventive help.
Toxicologists throw support behind pill testing ahead of major festival weekend Australia’s forensic and clinical toxicologists have thrown their weight behind pill testing as a way to save lives at music festivals.
Ongoing research aims to reduce antidepressant use Research is underway to implement a trial on supporting antidepressant de-prescribing in primary care.
Habit forming: Helping young people make good diet choices A website aims to help young Australians eat better, improve their overall health and reduce the risk of preventable disease as they grow older.
The Status Resolution Support Service and the ‘Legacy Caseload’: A primer for GPs Dr Gillian Singleton, a GP with a special interest in refugee health, discusses the impacts of cuts to the Status Resolution Support Service on the lives of asylum seekers in Australia.
Aged care facility food allowances ‘cutting corners’ Healthcare professionals have called for nutrition levels to be more closely monitored in aged care facilities to ensure a better quality of life and improved clinical outcomes for older people.
‘This should not be the norm for our people’: Ending rheumatic heart disease in Australia Two experts in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health talk about the urgent need to tackle high rates of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Australia.
Professor Anthony Radford: A passion for general practice Professor Radford reflects on an almost 60-year career which has taken him throughout Australia and all around the world.
Why do patients go to emergency rather than to their GP? Experts say the reasons for the phenomenon are complex – but underfunding of general practice is a key issue.
Medication management and supply A new RACGP resource is designed to inform GPs and practice staff who already, or wish to, store and supply medicines directly to their patients.