Health Policy

Doctors and general practice owners have welcomed a decision by the Queensland government to not subject GPs to extra payroll taxes. Treasurer Cameron Dick

HealthCert Education, Australia’s only university quality-assured medical education provider, proudly announces its partnership as a major CPD provider for the Royal

Two Indigenous people are dying each week of an entirely preventable heart disease. When most people pick up the Strep A bacteria, it's a simple case of

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A last-ditch effort to block pharmacies needing to bring in 60-day medicine dispensing is expected to fail. The opposition is moving in federal parliament to

Medical abortions will be easier to access under loosened rules that allow doctors and pharmacists without specialist certification to prescribe termination pills.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have been safely giving birth on country for more than 60,000 years. And there's a growing body of evidence

Close to 30 people have received permits and 12 have died during the first three months of South Australia's new assisted dying laws. The state government

Australia's peak medical body will no longer have a say on who leads the agency investigating potential Medicare fraud. New laws introduced to federal parliament

South Australian pharmacists will administer 10 more vaccines including those for chickenpox, measles, meningococcal, and shingles, in what will be the most comprehensive

Community health groups have hit out at a flagged decision to cut millions from preventative health programs in Victoria, saying it will increase pressure on hospitals and

Websites advertising prescriptions for weight loss drugs via an online quiz could find themselves in hot water from Australia's medicine regulator. Australian-based

Dozens of children under the age of four ingesting nicotine has been cited by Health Minister Mark Butler as one of the reasons for a crackdown on vaping laws.

The Australian Physiotherapy Association has called on the government to include physiotherapists in newly announced Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, which would see families

Taking the pressure off public hospitals will be the subject of an independent review agreed by health ministers. Federal Health Minister Mark Butler met with

Health Minister Mark Butler has welcomed a trial allowing pharmacists to prescribe the contraceptive pill as an innovative solution to address health care constraints.

More than 1.6 million discounted prescriptions were filled in January after the maximum co-payment for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme was discounted. The

A national sperm donation register would stop "prolific" sperm donors from creating more families than legally allowed, a peak fertility body says.

One of the country's largest health insurance providers has held off on increasing its premiums ahead of a planned annual rise later this year. NIB said

New Zealand has banned the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2008 in a landmark attempt to eradicate smoking. The legislation, which passed late on Tuesday,