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

Aged Care

View all 18/12/2025

ACQSC: Person-centred care insights – issue 7

ACSQHC: New resources to support people with intellectual disability

ACQSC: 2025: Joint letter from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing and Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission on Support at Home pricing information

Memorandum of Understanding between the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission and the NSW Ageing and Disability Commission November 2025

ACQSC: Membership of governing bodies fact sheet

Allied

View all 01/12/2025

Pharmacists get ready to join Victoria’s growing prescribing workforce – Monash University

17/11/2025

PSA Annual report

07/11/2025

40+ projects, 30+ partnerships: PSA’s projects make a bigger impact than ever before

29/10/2025

PSA: Patients to get Improved Access and Care from Autonomous Pharmacist Prescribing Model

14/10/2025

Chemist Warehouse billionaire Mario Verrocchi pops up at HMC Capital

Commonwealth

View all 18/12/2025

TGA: Multiple sunscreens recall – Lower than claimed SPF levels

TGA: Seeking input from users of digital mental health tools

17/12/2025

AHPRA: National Boards’ new Guidance ahead of register updates in April

TGA: Changes to the Prescription Medicines Minor Variation (PMMV) form

15/12/2025

PBS: PBAC Updates

Community Care

View all 05/09/2025

AHHA: Health precincts key to unlocking potential of value-based health care

06/08/2025

While the UK plans, Victoria is already delivering: Community Health – a Proven Model for Preventative and Equitable Care – Community Health First

14/07/2025

Community kitchen on the chopping block as Latrobe Health Assembly forced to close

15/03/2024

Indigenous Governance Awards 2024: Applications extended

07/02/2024

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

Devices

View all 03/12/2025

Samsung handsets could be leaving hundreds of thousands at risk

19/11/2025

VenstraMedical Secures Investment From Highcroft Capital to Advance Next-generation Cardiac Support Device

12/11/2025

Cochlear-backed Epiminder bullish about growth ahead of $325m listing

06/08/2025

Renewed calls to subsidise insulin pumps and glucose monitors for diabetics

23/06/2025

Ottai unveils revolutionary ai-powered biosensor set to transform chronic disease care

Digital Health

View all 11/12/2025

Development of a digital dashboard to address population-level obesity using electronic medical record data

08/12/2025

Global Health and Best Practice partner to enhance digital connectivity across healthcare

04/12/2025

Telehealth use in Voluntary Assisted Dying: a systematic review

28/11/2025

ANDHealth annual report

21/11/2025

Telehealth Usage Falls to 22.5% as Two-Thirds of Aussies Say Quality Doesn’t Measure Up

Disability

View all 15/12/2025

NDIS: NDIA release three-year pricing workplan

11/12/2025

NDIS Commission makes submission to Productivity Commission inquiry

09/12/2025

Grattan Institute: End the disability support postcode lottery

NDIS: Cracking down on misleading promotion of ‘NDIS-approved’ products

How $2b could be redirected from the NDIS and help 230,000 more people

Education

View all 18/12/2025

Dept of PM&C: Using behaviour insights to tackle youth vaping: A student competition with the University of Melbourne

11/12/2025

Avance Clinical Launches Diversity in STEM Scholarships Across Australia and North America

02/10/2025

Project plots a quantum leap to bridge healthcare gap

29/08/2025

CDU Health Hub doubles service delivery as demand surges

18/08/2025

‘We are concerned’: Star surgeon’s unravelling résumé stretches to University of Sydney

Emergency Services

View all 05/12/2025

NSWA launches Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) in The Rock

03/12/2025

Ambulance Victoria put on blast as union takes over social media in escalating pay dispute – Ambulance Managers & Professionals Association (AMPA)

27/11/2025

Cardiac arrest survivors reunite with NSW Ambulance PRECARE critical care medical team and paramedics

14/11/2025

Drunk engineers, ‘shoddy maintenance’, humiliated patients: Westpac Rescue fights to save reputation

New crisis hits Ambulance Victoria with backroom staff to strike over pay dispute

Federal Government

View all 18/12/2025

DoHDA: Approved providers with an exemption from the 24/7 registered nurse responsibility

DoHDA: Transition Care Program Guidelines – December 2025

DoHDA: Better Renal Services – Analytics needs assessment report

DoHDA: Care minutes targets in individual residential care homes (financial year 2025-26)

Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook

First Nations

View all 15/12/2025

Leading Northern Territory program triples liver cancer survival rates for Aboriginal Territorians – Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) and Menzies School of Health

18/11/2025

‘Truly inspiring’: RACGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander award winners announced

07/11/2025

Standing together for equity in emergency care – Australian Indigenous Doctors Association

29/10/2025

ABS: Closing the Gap: guide to data specifications for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey

22/10/2025

AIHW: Health checks and follow-ups for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Genetics

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Hospitals

View all 18/12/2025

Family demands answers after man, 84, dies following alleged hospital bashing

16/12/2025

National Health Funding Body: National Health Reform public hospital funding National report – November 2025

Cost-cutting, safety fears for prestigious Sydney private hospital

11/12/2025

Australia can relieve hospital ‘bed block’ with palliative care investment – Palliative Care Australia

09/12/2025

Private Healthcare Australia: Hospital treatment classification for intravitreal eye injections

Insurance

View all 12/12/2025

Medibank demonstrates ongoing commitment to Australia’s health transition through new diabetes prevention research award

04/12/2025

Report to the Australian Senate For the period 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 On anti-competitive and other practices by health insurers and providers in relation to private health insurance

PHA: Health funds return almost $4.8 billion in savings and givebacks to members, new official figures show

19/11/2025

Medibank: 2025 AGM Chair and CEO address

Medibank: Western Hospital welcomes GenesisCare to deliver chemotherapy services to local community

LGBTQIA+

View all 21/11/2025

New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people

21/08/2025

Health official’s trans stillbirth remark fuels woke row

29/07/2025

Critics claim gender clinics are seeing an excess of trans boys. But new data suggest otherwise

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

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 18/12/2025

Australians for Mental Health welcomes mental health spend in mid-year budget update

11/12/2025

Grattan Institute: Australia’s mental health gap is widening

01/12/2025

Gen Z suicide figures shows urgent need for a Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing – Australians for Mental Health

Guardian: ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn

For many people with acute mental illness, ‘hospital in the home’ means living well in the community

Nursing

View all 15/12/2025

ANMF condemns Bondi Beach mass shootings – The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation

05/12/2025

ACN welcomes NSW health reform agenda, calls for investment in nursing-led models of care – Australian College of Nursing

ACN welcomes ACT’s landmark nurse practitioner reforms and urges other jurisdictions to follow – Australian College of Nursing

20/11/2025

Grattan backs better use of nursing expertise as part of hospital funding fix – Australian College of Nursing

19/11/2025

Healthscope nurses and midwives to hold stop-work rally – The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (Victorian Branch)

Organisations

View all 18/12/2025

Australian Medical Council: Update to the AMC MCQ Examination Pass Standard

20/11/2025

IPAN: Prioritise Health not AUKUS – IPAN Media Release 19 Nov 2025

04/11/2025

Australian Medical Council annual reports

Medicines Australia publishes Annual Report and announces new Board Directors

03/11/2025

RANZCOG & ACM Call on Health Ministers to End Freebirth Deaths

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 18/12/2025

LTR Pharma surpasses 1,000 SPONTAN® prescriptions under TGA Special Access Scheme

17/12/2025

Weight Watchers Launches a Fully Integrated Platform for the GLP-1 Era – WW International Inc.

Emyria Secures First Victorian Empax Clinic, Broadens National Clinic Platform

MAYNE PHARMA OFFICIALLY OPENS NEWLY EXPANDED MANUFACTURING FACILITY

16/12/2025

Emyria Secures First Victorian Empax Clinic, Broadens National Clinic Platform

Primary Care

View all 18/12/2025

New Monash Mildura GP Academy to address rural doctor shortage – Monash University

17/12/2025

Healthy North Coast: Third round of North Coast Primary Care Impact Grants recipients announced

15/12/2025

Brisbane South PHN annual report

12/12/2025

Universal Health Coverage Day: RACGP calls out need for better funding for chronic conditions and preventive care

Federal AMA welcomes Medical Board decision on health checks for older doctors

Public Health

View all 15/12/2025

WHO expert group’s new analysis reaffirms there is no link between vaccines and autism

11/12/2025

New program will see cancer services unite to achieve equity in cancer care – Cancer Australia

04/12/2025

The 12-year gap: How Australians can stay healthier for longer – UNSW Sydney

Parents, cancer patients say lack of proton therapy in Australia is ‘an embarrassment’

02/12/2025

1 in 4 Deaths but No National Picture: Consensus on Closing the CVD Data Gap – Australian Cardiovascular Alliance

Research

View all 18/12/2025

Supporting parents to care for a child with neurodevelopmental disability: exploring parents’ perspectives and experiences of a health service

17/12/2025

NHMRC: $4.4 million to advance research in the East Asia region

16/12/2025

Brain research centre The Florey sues executive, alleging he stole and erased files

15/12/2025

Understanding enablers and barriers to implementing the Safer Baby Bundle: a mixed-methods study with site leads

Evaluation of the research capacity and culture within the allied health workforce in Northern New South Wales Local Health District: a cross-sectional observational study

Rural Health

View all 21/11/2025

The regional health crisis solution that is hiding in plain sight

28/10/2025

Haines moves to establish $2 billion fund to build rural and regional hospitals

24/10/2025

Annual report – Office of the National Rural Health Commissioner 2024-25

17/10/2025

Choosing regional, rural, and remote practice: what attracts or deters early-career doctors?

14/10/2025

DPM&C: Building a nutrition workforce for Remote Communities

Specialists

View all 15/12/2025

Australia’s medical specialist fees are ‘out of control’, Mark Butler says. Here’s why, and how to fix it

10/12/2025

Getting to the facts on specialist fees and clearing up the confusion, from those that create it. – Australian Society of Anaesthetists

09/12/2025

Specialist doctor fees are forcing Australians into ‘impossible choices’. Advocates say urgent change is needed

08/12/2025

Specialist Fees Denying Patient Access to Care: Time to Act – Doctors Reform Society

19/11/2025

National survey of Australian endocrinologists on relative importance of pre-existing inpatient diabetes audit fields in preparation for a national hospital audit

States

View all 18/12/2025

NSW Health: Mental health support available after Bondi tragedy

Victoria: Continuing Strong Leadership

Boosting Aboriginal health research and leadership across WA

Cancer Council Victoria annual report

17/12/2025

Leukaemia Foundation welcomes South Australian Government commitment to establish dedicated CAR T therapy service

Technology

View all 16/12/2025

Byron Medical Announces the Product Release of BlancOne: a Science-Powered Breakthrough Redefining In-Chair Whitening Technology

11/12/2025

Ramsay Health Care makes landmark Australian investment in robotic surgical technology

08/12/2025

MSIA Voluntary AI Code

Visionflex: Bringing healthcare back to Country: Visionflex technology to be showcased at the NACCHO Members’ Conference

05/12/2025

NextDC: Building the Next Generation of Sovereign AI infrastructure in Australia

Tenders

View all 18/12/2025

FOV: DoHDA: First Nations Health Outreach Services

DoHDA: Request for Expression of Interest for the Provision of a Rural Locum Program

Grant opportunity: NHMRC: 2026 NHMRC e-ASIA Joint Research Program funding commencing 2027

17/12/2025

Contract notice: DoHDA: Development Of A Framework for Capability Training; $592,890.10; Nous Group Pty. Ltd.

Contract notice: Cancer Australia: Services to support the 2-year Evaluation of the Australian Cancer Plan: $767,450; Sustainable Health System Solutions Pty Ltd (Professor Adam Elshaug)

Third Degree

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Webinar

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WHO

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Women's Health

View all 11/12/2025

Katy Gallagher: PROVIDER IDENTIFIED FOR WODEN MEDICARE URGENT CARE CLINIC

21/11/2025

Monash IVF says market share, patients down since embryo mix-ups

19/11/2025

Joint Media Release: Coalition Takes the Lead on Impact of Microplastics on Women’s Health

11/11/2025

Expert panels to guide future priorities for women’s health

10/11/2025

Inquiry into women’s pain confirms it’s time to redesign the health system around women – Women’s Health in the South East

Workforce

View all 18/12/2025

Anaesthetist Dr David Bertholini reprimanded for misconduct for taking strong sedative from private hospitals

17/12/2025

Gold Coast doctor fined for spying on ex-wife’s medical records

15/12/2025

Doctors’ Health NSW Impact Report 2025

20/11/2025

Senior NT doctor charged with rape amid claims of a ‘cover-up’ over alleged conduct

19/11/2025

Dozens of Victorian doctors, nurses and medical practitioners named on health watchdog’s 2025 ban list