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

Aged Care

View all 23/12/2025

Two more rural aged care homes to be expanded and upgraded

ACQSC: A new rights-based process for complaints – what providers can expect from us

19/12/2025

ACSQHC: Read the latest issue of Person-centred Care Insights

Virtual care in residential aged care and primary care settings: a systematic literature review using the SEIPS framework

18/12/2025

ACQSC: Person-centred care insights – issue 7

Allied

View all 29/12/2025

PROPOSED PLAN TO INCREASE DENTIST NUMBERS COULD PUT PATIENT SAFETY AT RISK – Australian Dental Association

28/12/2025

Pharmacy Guild: Millions need New Year Medicines price cut

23/12/2025

PSA: “Implement them all”; PSA back every recommendation of the Pharmacy Programs Cost Effectiveness Review

22/12/2025

PSA enters into Heads of Agreement for the First Pharmacy Programs Agreement to progress partnership and certainty

Mark Butler: Medicine reviews and support for rural pharmacies to continue under new agreement

Commonwealth

View all 28/12/2025

TGA: Updates to the Prescribing Medicines in Pregnancy database – December 2025

TGA: Lawful possession and supply of vaping goods in Australia: What’s changed

PBAC Public Summary Documents – September 2025

23/12/2025

NHMRC: Over $4 million for international collaborations into chronic pain research

$16.5 million commitment to strengthen health translation

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 23/12/2025

AIDH announces new Board appointment, re-election and farewell to outgoing Director

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

Disability

View all 30/12/2025

Parliamentary inquiry urges delay to NDIS changes for children with autism

23/12/2025

Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Disability presents report on the Thriving Kids Initiative – House of Representatives

15/12/2025

NDIS: NDIA release three-year pricing workplan

11/12/2025

NDIS Commission makes submission to Productivity Commission inquiry

09/12/2025

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

Education

View all 30/12/2025

Instead of sending city doctors to rural hospitals, this uni is changing course

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

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 28/12/2025

DoHDA: Review of Auslan interpreting service use in primary care report and resources

23/12/2025

Inquiry into Thriving Kids: No child left behind

DoHDA: Pharmacy Programs Cost Effectiveness Review – Final Report

22/12/2025

DoHDA: National Carer Strategy Outcomes Framework

19/12/2025

Office of Drug Control: Cannatrek Technologies Pty Ltd fined $19,800 for alleged breach of the Narcotic Drugs Act

First Nations

View all 28/12/2025

Aboriginal community tension in Victoria’s north amid health board division

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

Genetics

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Hospitals

View all 28/12/2025

IHACPA: NEP25 National Cost and Activity Drivers Report

Concerns over abortion, vasectomies, IVF, gender-affirming care access as Catholic organisation Calvary buys Hobart Private

23/12/2025

National Capital Private Hospital sold to multinational healthcare giant

Catholic Health Australia: Hospital group backs private national efficient price

Ramsay Health Care to expand into the ACT with National Capital Private Hospital

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 29/12/2025

More Mental Health Support For Melbourne’s Inner North

19/12/2025

PM, DoHDA: Mental health support package in response to Bondi terrorist attack

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

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 28/12/2025

Novo Nordisk wins FDA approval for Wegovy in a pill, introducing first oral GLP-1 option for obesity

23/12/2025

Clarity Pharmaceuticals: Positive guidance from the US FDA on Cu-64 SARTATE Phase III trial in patients with neuroendocrine tumours

Paradigm Confirms Progress Toward 25% Recruitment Milestone inPivotal PARA_OA_012 Phase 3 Trial

Invion: NON-DILUTIVE FUNDING SECURED FROM HANLIM PHARM AND KOREAN GOVERNMENTRESEARCH FUND FOR ESOPHAGEAL CANCER PRECLINICAL PROGRAMInvion:

22/12/2025

INOVIQ’s CAR-EXOSOMES DELIVER POSITIVE IN VIVO EFFICACY AND SAFETY RESULTS IN BREAST CANCER

Primary Care

View all 23/12/2025

Tweed Heads Medicare Urgent Care Clinic now open

Victor Harbor Medicare Urgent Care Clinic now open

Maitland Medicare Urgent Care Clinic now open

Bathurst Medicare Urgent Care Clinic now open

Seven Medicare Urgent Care Clinics open across Victoria

Public Health

View all 30/12/2025

iSelect: The Unhealthiest Places to Live in Australia

19/12/2025

ABS: Deaths due to acute respiratory infections in Australia

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

Research

View all 19/12/2025

NHMRC: $280 million towards innovative health and medical research

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

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 30/12/2025

Accreditation remains but trainee cardiologists not being sent to North Canberra Hospital

29/12/2025

Field Day music festival to participate in NSW drug checking trial

Tasmania: Community pharmacists awarded scholarships to expand care

28/12/2025

Canberra Hospital’s nursing changes to put patients at risk: union

FAIRFIELD CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP & ALLIANCE CELEBRATES MILESTONE

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 28/12/2025

Contract notice: ACQSC: Telecommunication Services (Transition Contract); $12,592,845.14; Macquarie Technology Operations Pty Ltd

FOV: NHMRC: 2027 NHMRC-Horizon Europe

FOV: NHMRC: 2026 NHMRC-Horizon Europe

23/12/2025

Grant opportunity: DoHDA: Blood Borne Viruses (BBV) and Sexually Transmissible Infections (STI) Research ProgramGrant opportunity: DoHDA:

22/12/2025

FO: DoHDA: Employment Training and Resources for the Autistic and autism community, employers and employment providersFO: DoHDA:

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 19/12/2025

French doctor jailed for poisoning 30 patients, including children

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