A selection of links to the latest press releases, tenders and announcements relevant to the Australian health industry

Aged Care

View all 11/06/2025

Catholic Health Australia newsletter

10/06/2025

ARIIA establishes Advisory Group to guide collaborative projects

27/05/2025

National audit reveals key strengths and opportunities for medication oversight in Australian aged care – Monash University

21/05/2025

ACQSC: Draft Audit Evidence Collection Tool (AECT) – Registration

ACQSC: Draft Audit Evidence Collection Tool (AECT) – Variation

Allied

View all 12/06/2025

No relief for OTs: NDIS price freeze enters seventh year with services at breaking point – Occupational Therapy Australia

Prac Payment for TAFE nursing students to help many take first step in a rewarding career – The Australian College of Nursing

11/06/2025

Community pharmacy invites ‘pop ins’ this Men’s Health Week

06/06/2025

Chemist Warehouse brigade sells another $200m of Sigma; eyes on insiders

30/05/2025

CDU leads nation as first pharmacy graduates earn ‘Doctor of Pharmacy’ title

Commonwealth

View all 13/06/2025

AIHW: National bowel cancer screening program monitoring report 2025

TGA statement on CHOICE SPF sunscreen findings

11/06/2025

Commonwealth Prac Payment registrations open to TAFE Nursing students

10/06/2025

ALRC: Review of Surrogacy Laws: Issues Paper Released

About the shortage of Pegasys (peginterferon alfa-2a) injection

Community Care

View all 15/03/2024

Indigenous Governance Awards 2024: Applications extended

07/02/2024

Northern Sydney’s leading community care provider welcomes new name, Proveda

25/10/2023

Championing recognition for unpaid carers

24/10/2023

Care in the comfort of home: WSLHD launches inTouch Community Care video consultations in western Sydney

18/07/2023

ACT Health: CanTEST final report finds strong community support

Devices

View all 12/06/2025

Cochlear provides update to FY25 earnings guidance

30/04/2025

DoHAC: HTACCC communique – 19 February 2025

16/04/2025

‘Could be next Cochlear or ResMed’: heart device maker wins FDA approval

04/04/2025

Cochlear awaits clarification on application of US tariff

17/02/2025

Cochlear Limited Financial Results for the half year ended December 2024

Digital Health

View all 13/06/2025

Patients’ and nurses’ perceptions and experiences of a digitally enabled cardiac telerehabilitation program—a qualitative study

10/06/2025

Tanarra Capital secures exit at software biz Health Metrics

02/06/2025

Impact of Digital Health on Patient-Provider Relationships in Respiratory Secondary Care Based on Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence: Systematic Review

29/05/2025

Personalized and collaborative use of digital measurement-based care tools enhances engagement among young adults: a mixed-methods study

21/05/2025

Are people with diabetes mHealth-ready? Smartphone utilisation in a socioeconomically marginalised urban Australian general practitioner-led diabetes clinic

Disability

View all 13/06/2025

NDS: NDIS Price Limits Released Today Deeply Concerning — Peak Body Calls For Urgent Reform To Maintain Quality Disability Services

NDIS: Fairer and more equitable pricing for NDIS participants

10/06/2025

NDS outlines solutions to funding gaps in disasters

29/05/2025

NDIS online data updated

26/05/2025

Unhealthy trend: Wave of NDIS financial collapses hit home

Education

View all 21/03/2025

Dementia Australia welcomes much-needed education standards for the workforce

27/11/2024

Public humiliation is still a common teaching tool in medical education. Here’s how it leaves patients worse off

22/11/2024

CDU to expand allied health services in Darwin – Charles Darwin University

18/11/2024

AMC: International Medical Graduate Experiences Survey

24/10/2024

ACCC authorises shared practices for graduate medical schools

Emergency Services

View all 28/05/2025

Air inside IV fluid bags from overseas posing an extra risk in emergencies

22/04/2025

Volunteers assist in emergencies in regional Tasmania, but a shortage means paramedics are often on their own

15/04/2025

Paramedic Practitioners within ambulance services: views of Australian policymakers, health professionals, and consumers

24/02/2025

Why women wait to call 000 when they suspect they’re having a heart attack – Monash University

10/02/2025

First paramedics in training for 2025 join NSW Ambulance

Federal Government

View all 12/06/2025

DoHDA: Include COVID-19 Chapter in the Australian Immunisation Handbook

11/06/2025

Department of Health, Disability and Ageing Sign Network Deal with Optus

10/06/2025

DoHDA: Webinar 9: Multi-Purpose Service – Aged Care Reforms: Impacts on the MPSP and providers – webinar recording

DoHDA: Influenza (flu) immunisation data – 1 March to 1 June 2021–2025

06/06/2025

DoHDA: FOV Drug and Alcohol Review Journal

First Nations

View all 11/06/2025

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework – summary report

First Nations Health Funding Transition Advisory Group Communique

16/05/2025

NACCHO Welcomes Ministerial Appointments and Reaffirms Commitment to Closing the Gap

Shifting the focus of child and youth wellbeing programs from crisis to prevention: a mixed methods study of the role of First Nations’ community-controlled organisations

09/05/2025

NACCHO members vote in new Constitution

Hospitals

View all 10/06/2025

Private equity starts preparing for revived Healthscope auction

30/05/2025

Man almost dies after allegedly taking partner’s VAD drugs at Gold Coast University Hospital

29/05/2025

Shots fired at Kingaroy home locks down hospital

27/05/2025

Ramsay: Breakthrough heart procedure performed at Wollongong Private Hospital – a first for New South Wales

16/05/2025

Victoria: Big Plans Bring New Melton Hospital Designs To Life

Insurance

View all 13/06/2025

APHA: Has Minister Butler reneged on deadline for insurers to pay up?

03/06/2025

Medibank to return a further $25 million to customers, bringing total give back to $1.64 billion

30/05/2025

Sharp rise in mental health support calls since Medibank launched awareness campaign

21/05/2025

AMA: Alarm bells ring over Bupa’s aggressive vertical integration plans

20/05/2025

Bupa expands primary care services through new mental health clinics

LGBTQIA+

View all 10/06/2025

Queensland’s puberty blockers review panel criticised for lacking gender experts and trans lived experience

19/05/2025

PSA: International Day Against LGBTQIA+ Discrimination

16/05/2025

Trans joy in play: How video games can unlock gender euphoria for transgender players – Monash University

05/02/2025

More support for Tasmania’s LGBTIQA+ community

17/01/2025

Supporting Young LGBTIQA+ Victorians To Live Their Best Lives

Medical practitioners

View all 13/08/2024

Medical Board of Australia’s August news for medical practitioners

30/08/2023

Doctor under investigation after patient dies

18/07/2023

Training the next generation of doctors in NSW

03/07/2023

Doctors on notice as cosmetic surgery practice and advertising changes come into effect

21/06/2023

National Health Practitioner Ombudsman: May review

Medico-legal

View all 15/08/2023

Historic win for junior doctors in wage theft case for unpaid overtime

13/07/2023

Charlie Teo found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct

08/06/2023

Mixed prospects for Merck lawsuit against US federal government, says GlobalData

17/05/2023

Three health practitioners hit with fines over unlawful importation of prescription medicines

15/05/2023

Maurice Blackburn Lawyers welcome OAIC decision to investigate Medibank complaint

Mental Health

View all 10/06/2025

Medibank and Magda Szubanski team up to start an important conversation about mental health in Australia

06/06/2025

Bathurst Medicare Mental Health Centre now open

28/05/2025

Victoria: Supporting The Lived Experience Mental Health Workforce

27/05/2025

Ten Years of Honouring Mental Health Leadership: Nominations Now Open for the 2025 Australian Mental Health Prize. – UNSW Sydney

Push for police to be removed from mental health crisis responses

Organisations

View all 30/05/2025

‘Very serious’: Health charity investigated after Las Vegas trip

27/05/2025

AAHMS: Congratulations to our eight Fellows elected to the Academy of Science

06/05/2025

Better access to palliative care must be part of the new government’s agenda – Palliative Care Australia

28/03/2025

Better access to palliative care – Australians call for action – Palliative Care Australia

19/03/2025

Medicines Australia: Recognition for outstanding results in Medicines Australia’s Continuing Education Program

Payments

View all 06/09/2023

Queensland Government: 7 projects get $1 million to boost health and community services workforce

24/08/2023

Raise more revenue to fairly fund services: ACOSS response to the IGR

22/08/2023

NHMRC: Over $9 million for collaborative research projects to improve health care access and equity

14/08/2023

Historic win for junior doctors in wage theft case for unpaid overtime

07/08/2023

RACGP and AMA meeting ACT political leaders to gain clarity for GPs on payroll tax concerns

Pharma/Biotech

View all 13/06/2025

Clarity Pharmaceuticals: SABRE topline results: 64Cu-SAR-Bombesin is effective in detecting prostate cancer recurrence in patients with negative SOC imaging

Syntara: New positive interim data in Phase 2 study of SNT-5505 in myelofibrosis

12/06/2025

Radiopharm Theranostics Granted U.S. Food and Drug Administration Fast Track Designation for RAD101 Imaging in Brain Metastases

Noxopharm: Promising Sofra™ results from overseas company

Syntara: SNT-5505 awarded US FDA fast track designation

Primary Care

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AMA: Too much risk: Non-collaborative prescribing schemes threaten patient safety

11/06/2025

New GP Practice opens in Parkes

10/06/2025

GPs asking men about their behaviour in relationships could help reduce domestic violence

“Let this evaluation see the light of day”: GPs call for release of Queensland drug testing report – Royal Australian College of GPs

06/06/2025

GPs urge state leaders: free RSV vaccine for those at risk – Royal Australian College of GPs

Public Health

View all 13/06/2025

RFK Jr. names 8 new members to CDC’s vaccine advisory committee after purging entire panel

National Immunisation Strategy for Australia 2025–2030

11/06/2025

NCIRS webinar: Navigating vaccination for immunocompromised patients – new handbook guidance

10/06/2025

Australia needs to consider environmental impacts in healthcare decisions and planning

02/06/2025

Smoke, mirrors and pressure: a reality check on student vaping

Research

View all 13/06/2025

Medical Research Future Fund funding for regional, rural and remote research

12/06/2025

Meet the 10 groundbreaking projects selected to transform Australia’s heart health future

10/06/2025

Sydney Scientists: World First Discovery Reveals the Hidden Cause of Organ Damage in COVID-19 and Other Deadly Conditions – ThromBio

05/06/2025

Cancer Council ACT announces the 2025 Cancer Research Grant Recipients at Government House

New endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain management plan to be trialled in Australia – Monash University

Rural Health

View all 10/06/2025

New data strengthens calls for increased investment in rural students and education and training – National Rural Health Alliance

09/05/2025

Bridging the city-country health divide must be a priority for the next government – Consumers Health Forum of Australia

$6.5 billion deficit in rural health spend – Maternity Consumer Network

06/05/2025

Second-term Albanese Government must act now to implement rural health reform – National Rural Health Alliance

02/05/2025

ACRRM: New grants back community-led solutions to rural healthcare

Specialists

View all 29/05/2025

‘Staff too fearful to speak out’: Cosmetic surgery sector is a work in progress

30/04/2025

RADIOLOGY LEADER IMAGING ASSOCIATES ACCELERATES GROWTH WITH STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF DIAGNOSTICARE – Imaging Associates

03/04/2025

AMAQ: Increased specialist support for the regions

24/03/2025

RACP pre-budget submission

06/03/2025

New Lidcombe Wellbeing Centre to support neuro care and connection – MS PLus

States

View all 12/06/2025

NSW health stats underscore need for health reform – The Australian College of Nursing

11/06/2025

Consultation survey on the next NSW HIV Strategy

More care closer to home at Sunbury Community Hospital

Construction starts for Orange Health Service palliative care expansion

Queensland Mental Health Commission’s 2025 Pulse Survey now open

Technology

View all 12/06/2025

Cochlear Launches World’s First and Only Smart Cochlear Implant System with upgradeable firmware

This $50m medical scribe start-up says it can cure doctors’ admin pain

10/06/2025

‘Next Cochlear’ launches ASX float to sell its ‘medical Lego’

05/06/2025

Importance of sample size on the quality and utility of AI-based prediction models for healthcare

04/06/2025

FDA Launches Agency-Wide AI Tool to Optimize Performance for the American People

Tenders

View all 13/06/2025

Gippsland PHN: Support After Suicide – Postvention Services

Future immunisation research, surveillance and support services for the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

Metro North HHS: Dental Laboratory Services

DoHDA: Extension of the Remote Accord

DoHDA: National Zero Childhood Cancer Precision Medicine Program (ZERO)

Webinar

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Women's Health

View all 03/06/2025

A new network to help improve postpartum contraception care – Monash University

Postpartum Contraception Network

29/05/2025

Hate over love: conservative influencers have brought angrier anti-abortion politics to Australia

27/05/2025

Australian women lagging on use of IUDs due to education ‘failure’, experts say

20/05/2025

Major women’s health announcement: $50 million endometriosis institute launched at UNSW – UNSW Sydney

Workforce

View all 13/06/2025

New charge for prominent doctor accused of sexually assaulting staff

05/06/2025

‘Serious risk’: rape-accused doctor fails to overturn practising suspension

21/05/2025

Planning for the future of the Australian midwifery workforce: the Midwifery Futures workforce model

16/05/2025

Planning for the future of the Australian midwifery workforce: the Midwifery Futures workforce model

14/05/2025

Paul’s Story: From Cable Beach to Cardiac Care