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Trainee anguish as GP exams flounder

Editor: Amy CoopesAuthor: Sama Balasubramanianon: October 14, 2020In: general practice, health and medical education

Introduction by Croakey: The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners had to apologise to trainees this week after its annual barrier exams had to be cancelled due to technical issu... Read more

Vale Dr Harry Nespolon, a “fierce advocate” for general practice

Editor: Marie McInerneyAuthor: Marie McInerneyon: July 27, 2020In: Coronavirus outbreak 2019-2020, general practice, global health, health financing and costs, health reform, Healthcare and health reform, primary health care, public health, Public health and population health, rural and remote health, telehealth

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

Primary care push for a social prescribing scheme

Editor: Amy CoopesAuthor: Amy Coopeson: February 11, 2020In: chronic diseases, Health in All Policies, health reform, non communicable diseases, prevention, primary health care, public health, Social determinants of health

Social prescribing is popular with both doctors and patients but the infrastructure and funding are lacking, according to a new report calling for the practice to become a routine part of pr... Read more

Primary care essential to Advance Australia Fair

Editor: Amy CoopesAuthor: Dr Bastian Seidelon: March 20, 2017In: Croakey longreads, Healthcare and health reform, primary health care

Politics is bad medicine when it comes to taxpayer health and Medicare ought to be ringfenced from partisan brinksmanship by an Independent Medicare Authority, Royal Australian College of Ge... Read more

On our selection: Colleges welcome change to trainee entry

Editor: Amy CoopesAuthor: Bastian Seidel and Ruth Stewarton: February 21, 2017In: general practice, health reform, primary health care

In a what proved a popular move, Assistant Minister for Health, Dr David Gillespie, travelled to Tasmania at the end of last month to announce that his Government was handing responsibility... Read more

Taming the tsunami of too much medicine

Editor: Amy Coopeson: September 29, 2015In: Choosing Wisely, health reform, primary health care, public health

EDITOR’S NOTE: This post has been updated to include the latest comments from Health Minister Sussan Ley and the RACGP Lots of reaction kicking about to last night’s controversia... Read more