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Read the transcript of the television interview between Assistant Minister Kearney and Melissa Clarke on the RACGP Report, social media summit, Opposition Party nuclear policy, China-Australia trade.

Read Minister Butler's interview with Craig Reucassel on mental health; social media.

Read Assistant Minister McBride's speech from the headspace day event at Parliament House.

Today, Professor Paul Kelly has announced his decision to retire from his position as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the Department of Health and Aged Care.

Australians with types of vasculitis, leukaemia, heart disease, ulcerative colitis and arthritis now have access to new and expanded cheaper medicines under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

Read Minister Butler's address to RACGP Health of the Nation Report launch at Parliament House.

Three reviews that examined some of the structures and systems that underpin Medicare, general practice and primary care are now complete:
• the Review of General Practice Incentives
• the Review of After Hours Primary Care Programs and Policy, and
• the Working Better for Medicare Review.

Every Australian child and young adult with high-risk neuroblastoma will continue to have free access at Australian hospitals to a promising medicine not otherwise available in Australia, known as DFMO, thanks to an agreement secured from the Albanese Government.

A GP, a nurse, an Aboriginal health practitioner and two multidisciplinary health teams are Queensland’s finalists in the Stronger Medicare Awards.

Eleven individuals and teams, covering general practice, psychology, nursing and multidisciplinary teams, are Victoria’s finalists in the Stronger Medicare Awards.

The Albanese Government is investing almost $18 million in a world-first Australian research project that will trial a drug discovered by Australian researchers that protects the heart during a heart attack.

The Australian Government is investing a further $13 million to drive innovation across the aged care sector.

The Australian Government is delivering better access to urgent health care for residents in Adelaide’s northeast with the opening of a new Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC) at the McIntyre Medical Centre.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference on Para Hills Medicare Urgent Care Clinic.

Read the transcript from Assistant Minister Thwaites' interview with Katie Woolf on the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card, and the Seniors Roundtable in the Northern Territory.

Read the interview between Minister Butler and Matthew Pantelis on the shingles vaccination.

19 major organisations will work together to deliver action on climate and health.

The Albanese Labor Government is celebrating an increase in breast cancer screening rates this Breast Cancer Month.

The Australian Government is ensuring thousands of Australians, with or at risk of contracting HIV, are protected by securing the supply of tenofovir with emtricitabine, or PrEP, by temporarily approving the supply on an alternative overseas-registered brand.

From today, new vaping reforms come into force to protect Australian kids from the harms of vaping and nicotine dependence. 

The Australian Government has committed over $14 million in mental health research through the Million Minds Mental Health Research Mission to protect Australians for decades to come.

The search for a multi-season flu vaccine, better treatment for schizophrenia, and how gut microorganisms may fight off melanoma, are 3 projects sharing in $50 million in health research funding from the Australian Government.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Jacqui Felgate on vape law changes.

Read Assistant Minister McBride's opinion piece from the Daily Telegraph on the 30/9/2024.

The Australian Government is investing $7.37 million in the Mental Health First Aid Training Program to support medical, nursing, midwifery, and allied health students to manage their mental health.