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10 July 2026
New Medicare Mental Health Check In service now available for patients
Medicare Mental Health Check In Medicare Mental Health Check In is a new digital service that offers free evidence-based and confidential support to help people…
General practice
10 July 2026
Assignment of benefits changes – latest update
From 1 July 2026, updated requirements apply for assigning Medicare benefits when a service is bulk billed. Assignment of benefit is the process where a…
Assignment of benefit
06 July 2026
Celebrating NAIDOC Week 2026: 50 Years of Deadly
NAIDOC Week is held annually in July and is a national celebration of Australia’s First Nations peoples, histories and cultures—the oldest, continuous living cultures on…
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
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09 October 2025
Upcoming Changes to Better Access Mental Health Program
From 1 November 2025, changes will be made to the Better Access to Psychiatrists, Psychologists and General Practitioners Initiative through the Medicare Benefits Schedule, subject…
General practice
25 September 2025
Prepare your patients for thunderstorm asthma season
Find health professional resources to ensure your patients are prepared for thunderstorm asthma season
General practice
24 September 2025
New Bulk Billing Incentives Calculator released for practices and GPs
Changes to bulk billing incentives from 1 November 2025 will expand the eligibility of bulk billing incentives to all Australians with a Medicare card. Currently,…
General practice
24 September 2025
Statewide Referral Criteria – new release for Dermatology and paediatric ENT conditions
Statewide Referral Criteria – new release for Dermatology conditions New statewide referral criteria for a range of children and adult dermatology conditions come into effect…
General practice
19 September 2025
EMPHN Insights feature: AI is coming
Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing rapidly – unfortunately probably contributing measurably to climate change with AIs intense data processing requirements. But there is an obvious…
EMPHN Insights
18 September 2025
Dementia Action Week
Dementia Action Week is a campaign that runs every year from 15 to 21 September and recognises the impacts of dementia and encourages people to…
HealthPathways
15 September 2025
Join the mission to end HIV transmission. Learn how easy it is to prescribe PrEP today.
Australia’s goal of reaching virtual elimination of HIV transmission by 2030 is within reach – but we need your help to get there. ASHM’s new…
General practice
15 September 2025
Fly high with Puffin for your GPACI reporting
General Practices have a new way to manage and report on visits to patients in aged care with the release of the Puffin tool, developed…
Aged and palliative care
10 September 2025
World Suicide Prevention Day 2025: Changing the narrative on suicide
Each year, September 10th marks World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD), which focuses on bringing global attention on suicide prevention, uniting communities, organisations, and governments with…
Mental health