2025

November

In-practice CPD: Make your wellbeing your CPD priority for 2026

This month’s focus encourages you to reflect on your personal wellbeing and consider prioritising it for your 2026 CPD. The RACGP recommends dedicating at least five hours each year to planning and reviewing how you invest in your physical, mental, and emotional health.

In-practice activity ideas:

• Familiarise yourself with the RACGP Wellbeing Self-Assessment activity that can help you evaluate key areas of your health, lifestyle, and stress management
• Talk about it with others in your workplace including how as a collective you can foster a culture that supports wellbeing
• In 2026 you can use the Self-Care Plan template to set practical wellbeing goals for the next 12 months and use the Check-in activity (1 hr RP) to review your progress

These activities are confidential, flexible, and can be self-recorded for CPD hours under Reviewing Performance (RP) and Measuring Outcomes (MO).

Explore GP wellbeing resources

October

Implementing the new asthma management update in your practice

The latest update to the Australian Asthma Handbook represents a major change in practice for GPs. The new guidelines move away from short-acting beta2 agonist (SABA) only treatment and recommend that all adults and adolescents with asthma use an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) containing reliever, such as low-dose budesonide-formoterol (AIR therapy). The update also establishes maintenance-and-reliever therapy (MART) as the preferred step-up option. Read the news GP article “Major change of practice’ in asthma advice”

In-practice activity ideas:

• Read the updated Australian Asthma Handbook summary and discuss as a team how these changes will affect your prescribing habits.
• Review your current patient cohort using SABA-only treatment and identify those who may benefit from switching to AIR therapy.
• Discuss how the new items and workflows will impact your current care planning, then record your meeting and review time using the GP group form
• Update your practice asthma management plans and patient education materials to align with the new guidelines.
• Use the Measuring Outcomes tool to record how these changes are being implemented in your practice and monitor patient outcomes over time.

By incorporating these changes into your team’s discussions and practice systems, you can capture CPD across multiple activity while improving asthma safety and outcomes in your patient community.

September

ADHD in general practice

ADHD is one of the trending topics featured in RACGP’s 2025 CPD solutions

To embed this learning in your practice, try these in-practice CPD ideas:

• Watch the ADHD module as a team and discuss how you identify and manage ADHD presentations in your patient population.
• Review your current referral pathways and explore local supports for patients with ADHD.
• Update practice systems to ensure consistency in documentation and follow-up care.
• Use the Measuring Outcomes tool to capture your team discussion, planned changes, and next steps

By reflecting on and applying this learning as a group, you can capture CPD across multiple activity types while strengthening support for patients with ADHD in your practice.

July

National Lung Cancer Screening Program – Is your practice ready?
To support implementation, Watch the NLCSP launch webinar. Discuss the screening pathway with your team and assess your clinic’s readiness, then record your meeting and review time using the Group or practice activity. Identify eligible patient cohorts and plan how to support screening uptake. Use the Measuring Outcomes tool to document any changes or evaluation results you may have.

Women’s Health: New menopause health assessment items
Watch the RACGP-approved webinar with your team. Discuss how these new items and CDM updates will affect billing, care planning, and patient management then record your meeting and review time using the Group or practice activity. Update practice systems and templates to align with the new framework, then use the Measuring Outcomes tool to document any changes or evaluation results you may have.

June

Exploring access to medicinal cannabis through general practitioners in Australia
Each month the AJGP clinical challenge has CPD activity recommendations that can be done in-practice. This month, consider evaluating your practice setting’s current capability to effectively and responsibly prescribe medicinal cannabis. Assess how you respond to patient requests, prescribe safely when clinically appropriate and address barriers to care, as outlined in the AJGP article by Martin et al.  

May

Addressing systemic barriers to obesity care in general practice
Consider reviewing your practice data and examine your recent experiences with patients who are overweight and obese. Use the article by Munindradasa and Douglas to explore some of the systemic issues that prevent your patients from accessing treatment, and how as a team, you can do a targeted campaign to raise awareness and offer care without further compounding stigma patients experience.

April

Tackling immunisations and vaccine hesitancy
Equip your practice to confidently manage potential measles cases with the RACGP's essential measles fact sheet and downloadable checklist.  This is a great resource for teams to discuss in your practice meetings.  Stay informed about the re-emergence of measles and access practical guidance on prevention, response, and recovery to protect your staff and patients.
Explore our in-practice MO recommendations in the latest AJGP issue  on breast cancer screening approach for moderate to high-risk women as outlined by Mazza and Emergy.

March

Options to do on your own or as a team
Each month the AJGP clinical challenge has CPD activity recommendations that can be done in-practice. This month, consider evaluating your practice setting’s current capability to effectively and responsibly prescribe medicinal cannabis. Assess how you respond to patient requests, prescribe safely when clinically appropriate and address barriers to care, as outlined in the AJGP article by Martin et al.