Australian Doctor

10/09/2026

Twenty years ago, Australia embarked on a mass expansion of medical school places, to fix the country’s over-reliance on IMGs to fill workforce holes and create a new era of self-sufficiency.
Professor Anthony Scott, the director of the Centre for Health Economics at Monash Business School, explains why self-sufficiency should no longer be the goal.

Professor Anthony Scott says producing more medical graduates should not be a goal for Australia's policymakers.

10/09/2026

How can we define a greedy doctor?
The language is more restrained, but this is the question at the heart of the Department of Health, Disability and Aging consultation paper released yesterday.

How can we define a greedy doctor? The language is more restrained, but this is the question at the heart of the Department of Health, Disability and

10/09/2026

Allowing pharmacists to initiate and supply oral contraceptives would free up around 730,000 GP appointments per year, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia says.

A government trial is underway allowing women with concession cards to be prescribed contraception by a pharmacist.

09/09/2026

The RACGP has defended its new environmental accreditation standards, saying that making practices “climate resilient” is about patient safety, not swamping practices with unnecessary red tape.

The standards suggest that practices embrace measures such as using recycled products and carbon offsets.

09/09/2026

Lawyers are seeking guidance from the Medical Board of Australia, amid growing uncertainty about the medicolegal risks faced by doctors signing partnership agreements with RNs allowing them to prescribe.

Formal agreements are a mandatory part of the RN prescribing model.

09/09/2026

Victoria Police have dropped an investigation into Dr Simon Gordon, the former gynaecologist accused of performing unnecessary endometriosis procedures on female patients.

Dr Simon Gordon, who is now retired, has been referred to a tribunal for alleged professional misconduct.

09/09/2026

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07/09/2026

Private midwives who manage homebirths could quit the practice en masse because of new indemnity rules, pushing women towards dangerous freebirths, midwifery groups say.

A lack of indemnity insurance has been a major hurdle for private midwives wanting to enter the field.

07/09/2026

The Grattan Institute has revealed that the Pharmacy Guild of Australia has written to its supporters with “false and misleading claims” suggesting that they pull their support from the institute.

Grattan says it stands by its report that criticised the guild's grip over government funding agreements.

07/09/2026

A formal inquiry will be held into a major hospital where senior doctors threatened to hold a vote of no confidence in their bosses amid long-running managerial conflict.

Doctors have welcomed the auditor-general's probe into Concord Hospital, which has suspended neurosurgeon Dr Raoul Pope.