ADHD med shortage set to end Supplies of lisdexamfetamine dimesilate should return to normal levels by the end of April, the TGA has advised.
Have your say on the state of general practice GPs can take part in the Health of the Nation survey to inform the RACGP’s top-level advocacy and shape the future of general practice.
A regular GP helps you live longer: Study Research has linked continuity of care, higher patient rebates, and access to full-time equivalent, fully qualified GPs with greater life expectancy.
Nine in 10 AGPT participants satisfied with program quality Results from the 2023 National Registrar Survey suggest the transition to college-led training was ‘very successful’, according to an RACGP rep.
GP training numbers up but politicians told more is needed Day two of the GPs @ Parliament campaign focused on workforce shortages, with doctors demanding the Government fix the profession’s ‘second-rate entitlements’.
Raising the prestige of general practice: A student’s perspective The culture that exists within medical student placements needs to shift if the GP workforce is to improve, writes hospital intern, Dr Phoebe Blaxill.
RACGP pushes workforce solutions at national roundtable Fifty peak medical bodies have convened in Canberra to identify the health system’s pressure points and highlight areas for change.
In Practice: Updates to allied health MBS items Referral changes to MBS items for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients accessing allied health services are now in place.
Drug survey backs RACGP’s calls for harm reduction The college’s Addiction Medicine Chair believes the results should be used as leverage to better support GPs providing care in this area.
TGA launches medicine shortage investigation GPs are being urged to have their say as part of the inquiry, which aims to ‘better prevent, manage, and communicate shortages’.