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News Tasked to provide advice on NSW prescribing, a GP has walked away after claims of being ignored, with the RACGP calling the move ‘an absolute red flag’. A GP who recently walked away from an expert advisory group on pharmacist prescribing said their concerns around lack of evidence were dismissed.

The Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) has honoured some of the state's most outstanding general practitioners, practices, supervisors and doctors in training at the RACGP NSW and ACT Faculty Awards, recognising excellence in patient care, education, leadership and community service. RACGP NSW and ACT Chair Dr Rebekah Hoffman congratulated all award recipients, acknowledging their significant contributions to their patients, communities and the future of general practice.

News After one of the largest ever RACGP Fellowship ceremonies, the GPs’ work will ‘strengthen our healthcare system for years to come’. The NSW ceremony saw 276 New Fellows, one Fellow in Advanced Rural Generalism and seven Rural Generalist Fellows welcomed to the profession. Almost 300 new GPs were welcomed to the profession on Saturday in one of the largest RACGP Fellowship ceremonies ever held.

Podcast Beyond tummy pain: Managing coeliac disease in kids Paediatric Gastroenterologist Dr Emma Turner and GP Anaesthetist Dr Erin Horsley outline key aspects of long-term management following a coeliac disease diagnosis. The Good GP

During Foster Care Week in Victoria and ahead of Global Kinship Care Week in October, Kinship Carers Victoria, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and the Foster Care Association of Victoria are jointly calling on all parties contesting the 2026 Victorian state election to commit to reimbursing foster and kinship carers for the cost of prescribed medicines for children in their care.

Specialist general practitioners from the Australian Capital Territory will bring general practice to the heart of government, engaging directly with ACT Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs), as part of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ (RACGP) 'GPs for MPs' event.

News Testing found it contained semaglutide at a level eight times higher than found in products in the ARTG, prompting new and urgent warnings. The TGA is currently attempting to locate the source or supply of unapproved peptides into Australia and remove the products from the market. A patient has been hospitalised with a torn oesophagus after using a fake weight-loss peptide sold as retatrutide.

News The Victorian Women’s Pain Standard reassures women they have a right to be ‘taken seriously and believed’ within healthcare. A first-of-its-kind inquiry involving 13,000 women and girls found 54% of respondents live with pain every day. A new Standard has been launched to address a ‘historic systemic bias’ and power imbalance in women’s healthcare, setting out principles that women should expect when seeking treatment for pain.

News Amid the rise, a study reaffirms that an anti-Müllerian hormone test must not be viewed as a ‘crystal ball for reproductive future’. ‘A low AMH result does not mean a woman is infertile, and a normal result does not guarantee future fertility.’ GP requests for anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) tests increased more than 13-fold in the decade to 2021, according to new Australian research.

News It examines what must change to make work fulfilling, warning of consult lengths, unequal caring loads, and an expectation to ‘excel simultaneously in multiple roles’. The study found women GPs find high-quality interactions with patients enriching and meaningful; but at the same time, this can lead to burnout.