2023: A Year of Change SPONSORED: Change is inevitable. The best thing GPs can do to prepare is maintain an adaptable mindset, writes Best Practice’s Suzi Eley.
College-led training proves successful It has been less than one year since the RACGP resumed responsibility of GP training, but students are already reporting improvements in learning.
IMG assessment push softened in final Kruk Review Following the release of a long-awaited report, RACGP President Dr Nicole Higgins says the college is ready to help address urgent workforce needs.
‘A focus on innovation and reform’: NHRA Review revealed Fragmentation dangers, lack of long-term vision, and never-ending red tape – those were the problems laid bare by a probe of the agreement.
National Cabinet signs off workforce funding boost Part of a new $1.2 billion Medicare package will go towards the Kruk Review recommendations, the Prime Minister has said.
‘A good news story’: RACGP welcomes rural training boost Regional and rural areas are set to benefit from a $90 million injection for the setup of six new medical school programs.
Re-consent needed for ‘critical’ data resource An RACGP committee has granted MedicineInsight ‘ethics approval’, but practices must sign up again to participate.
Payroll tax should be top of National Cabinet agenda: RACGP The college says a singular set of rules need to be established to keep practice doors open, labelling the status quo ‘a joke, at best’.
Doctors criticise strategy’s fossil fuel omission The Government released the Australia’s first National Health and Climate Strategy this week – but some GPs believe it does not go far enough.
RACGP hails 60-day dispensing meeting Representatives from both sides of the contentious reform met last week to hash out differences and ensure patients are put first.