Health Policy

New AMA president Michael Gannon says the Turnbull government's freeze on the Medicare rebate to GPs is unfair and they are "at breaking point".

Labor health spokeswoman Catherine King says making cuts to the health budget is a false economy. Federal Labor won't make any major funding

The NT government insists the Palmerston hospital has not blown its $150m budget despite the revelation the NT will have to put in more than $60m more.

Nurses have sent a warning to political parties on International Nurses Day, in the lead up to the federal election. With this year’s theme ‘Nurses:

The Federal Government’s fiscally conservative 2016-17 Federal Budget has received a cautious thumbs up from some organisations and peak bodies in the health sector

A federal government proposal to hand more money to the states to fund hospitals has nothing to do with the upcoming election, the health minister says.

The prime minister says he will propose changes to hospital funding when he meets state and territory leaders this week. Prime Minister Malcolm

Significant reform is needed to help Tasmania's ailing preventative health systems, with a parliamentary inquiry making several recommendations.

A spat between Victoria and the federal government over health funding continues with the state accused of sneaky accounting. Victoria has

The Turnbull government has been urged to make more spending cuts to pathology in a report accusing the industry of using patients as pawns for profits.

A new national survey of Australian healthcare directors, managers and professionals suggests that agency and locum staff expenses are the highest drivers of unplanned costs

Labor has used question time to quiz the prime minister over a reported plan to privatise Medicare. Malcolm Turnbull says Medicare must update

Health Minister Sussan Ley wants to tackle a pricing quirk which makes medical devices more expensive in the private health system. The federal

The WA government has confirmed more than 1100 job cuts to hospital staff but the AMA says the figure could be far bigger. Up to 3000 West