Today, I am humbled to announce my intention to stand for the upcoming RACGP Presidential election. General practice has shaped who I am as a doctor, a leader and a person. I understand the pressures facing our profession because I live them every day: as a specialist GP, practice owner, educator and advocate. I know...
2026 RACGP Presidential Campaign Material
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My update from RDAQ 2026 At RDAQ 2026 in Cairns, I had the opportunity to join a thoughtful panel on continuity, community and care, and what the Single Employer Model might teach us. It was great to see a lot of note taking. It was a timely discussion, not because the Single Employer Model is...
Jacinta Allan’s Pharmacy Announcement The social media reels promoting pharmacy prescribing are coming thick and fast, and the message is becoming impossible to miss. Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan is not simply announcing access to the contraceptive pill. She is fronting a prescribing power play that positions pharmacy as a substitute for general practice. This is...
What Advocacy in General Practice Looks Like Powerful advocacy in general practice, done properly, is disciplined. It is strategic. It is organised. It is often slow. At the highest level, it usually happens behind closed doors, across months and years, in rooms where the outcome matters more than the applause. Sometimes the long game of...
At first glance, a $2,000 flu vaccination grant may not seem like a major investment in healthcare. In a system dealing with workforce shortages, rising operating costs, increasing patient demand and growing administrative pressure, it could easily be dismissed as modest. But in general practice, modest support can still have a practical effect. In Western...
The old story of the Pied Piper carries a useful caution: a familiar-sounding tune can draw people in, but borrowed music is still not conviction. People notice more than we think. They notice when words feel borrowed. They notice when ideas suddenly sound familiar. They notice when a message feels less like belief and more...
Assignment of Benefits is now more workable Recently, I wrote about the proposed changes to the MBS Assignment of Benefits, both here and on AusDoc, and expressed concerns about the impact they would have on general practice. At the time, I said “watch this space” because many of us recognised that the proposal was neither...
An open letter on pharmacy prescribing Today, I was proud to stand with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and colleagues across the health sector in support of a simple but vital principle: patient safety must come first. A new open letter, supported by the RACGP alongside the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges...
Today in chilly Canberra, I had the privilege of attending Wild Health 2026 and joining a panel on the Great Prevention Pivot. I also saw progress on Canberra’s Light Rail expansion that I had to navigate through (more on this later). Back to Wild Health… it was one of the best conversations I’ve been part of...
From 1 July 2026, general practices across Australia will need to adjust how they manage Assignment of Benefit (AoB) for bulk-billed Medicare services. Dr Cory Lei and I wrote more about it here. When a patient is bulk billed, they assign their Medicare benefit to the provider. That assignment allows the provider to claim the...
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we work throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters, and community.
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