First student cohort to address workforce shortage

Registrations are now open to attend the 2024 GP Practice Owners Conference, which will be hosted at the Cairns Convention Centre in Queensland on Friday 24 - Sunday 26 May 2024. This is a Practice Owners Masterclass connecting like-minded GP practice owners and managers from around Australia. The conference will feature engaging and insightful presentations on the future of practice ownership, finance tips and tricks, and case studies.

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.

This media release from The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) explores the government’s new incentives to boost advanced health services in regional communities. The RACGP welcomed the inclusion of a broad range of disciples and services that could be delivered by GPs to communities outside the cities. Payments were available to eligible GPs and rural generalists under the Workforce Incentives Program, and the initiatives help to alleviate workforce shortages.

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.