Tributes were paid widely across the health sector on Monday to Dr Harry Nespolon, the high profile Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) President, who died overnight, a... Read more
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced significant new restrictions on telehealth arrangements to take effect from 20 July that will allow access in most cases only for providers wh... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The long-awaited access to telehealth consultations in the coronavirus pandemic has been broadly embraced by patients and health care providers, though it is not wit... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Climate health experts are concerned that the first Health Issues Paper released by the Royal Commission into last summer’s horrific bushfires does not mention climat... Read more
The curve has flattened, more protective gear is being imported and manufactured locally, and the Federal Government has responded by partially winding back a ban on elective surgery. But wi... Read more
Welcome to the third episode of our new podcast, CroakeyVOICES. Homelessness in the time of COVID 19 has some special challenges. Who can stay home when you don’t have a place to call your o... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Rural and metropolitan GPs and a leading Emergency Department doctor open up to Croakey about their critical personal and professional pressures and concerns during... Read more
Long hours, discrimination and bullying, and fears about job security are just some of the realities of life for Australian doctors in training, according to the first-ever national survey o... Read more
Many GPs who in 2018 received Health Department letters regarding their opioid prescribing criticised the strategy to stem over-prescribing, saying it unfairly targeted doctors who had legit... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: If large numbers of Australians require urgent hospital treatment for the novel coronavirus, how will the system cope? With great difficulty, one would assume, given... Read more
