Department of Health and Aged Care: About the Home Care Workforce Support Program

We explore the history of locum work in Australia and some of the benefits locum work can bring to your medical career.

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ News GP runs a weekly poll to gauge GP perspectives on various topics of interest. In this article, we provide a summary of poll results for last year - exploring what mattered to general practice in 2023, and the challenges that are set to continue in 2024 and beyond.

This article explores the future role of Artificial Intelligence in Australian healthcare. Recent publications by the Medical Journal of Australia highlight barriers and risks to AI integration. While AI applications are used in medical imaging and have the potential to improve services, such as pathology services, a lack of trust continues, especially regarding possible biases in underlying data and uneven government regulation.

Our analysis looks at the latest ABS data that estimates employee earnings and hours, pay settings, and public vs private sector wages and distribution – available by industry and occupation category.