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New safety and quality standards for primary care and community health services
A boost for IPC Health's social prescribing program
Is your practice ready for the Services Australia Web Services upgrade?
Health care providers asked to prepare for NASH changes now
Translating for healthy results
Free Emergency Response Planning Tool licences for general practices in 2022 and 2023
MBS telehealth items and the 12-month rule: FAQs for general practice
Melbourne’s health system needs to up its cultural cred, report finds
Cancer Mind Care, a new mental health self-help platform launches online
Referrals for the Vulnerable Peoples Homebound Vaccination Program
Practical steps to Closing the Gap
COVID-19 vaccinations in patient’s homes: tips for taking vaccines off-site
News from around our region
Survey of prescribing practices for patients of childbearing potential taking antiseizure medications (ASMs)
15 January 2026 | University of MelbourneHelp improve medicine safety in Australia: join a Monash University study
13 January 2026 | Monash UniversityDecommissioning of the NPS MedicineWise and Doctor’s Bag mobile applications
12 January 2026 | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health CarePre-travel consult? Make measles immunity a priority
23 December 2025 | North Eastern Public Health UnitVictorian Government dementia funding on offer for Brimbank GPs
9 December 2025 | Victorian Department of HealthReferrals for children newly diagnosed with diabetes into Western Health ambulatory clinic
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We acknowledge the people of the Kulin nations as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which our work in the community takes place. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present.
We also recognise, respect and affirm the central role played in our work by people with lived experience, their families and/or carers.
While the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has contributed to the funding of this website, the information on this website does not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Government and is not advice that is provided, or information that is endorsed, by the Australian Government. The Australian Government is not responsible in negligence or otherwise for any injury, loss or damage however arising from the use of or reliance on the information provided on this website.