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  • Medical Board Consultation – Endorsement of registration for acupuncture for registered medical practitioners.
    Feb 8, 2021
    The Medical Board of Australia (the Board) is consulting on a draft revised registration standard for Endorsement of registration for acupuncture for registered medical practitioners.
  • Representative wanted - Rural and Remote Health Journal
    Feb 3, 2021
    The College is seeking a representative to join the Management Team of the Rural and Remote Health Journal. The role of the management committee is to consider how to increase the readership, reach and financial sustainability of the journal. It is well supported by the Journal’s editorial team.
  • College representative for National Blood Forum
    Feb 2, 2021
    The College has been invited to provide a representative for the National Strategic Blood forum, which will be held on Wednesday 31 March by videconference. This presenter will be participating in a session to discuss the current and future blood requirements for different settings, including regional and remote medicine, chronic transfusion support, in the emergency department and for hospital retrieval, followed by a discussion panel.
  • Better Pain Management program
    Feb 1, 2021
    The Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists is currently leading a project to develop a pain management education strategy for Australian health practitioners. The project is funded by the federal Department of Health and supports Goal Three of the National Strategic Action Plan for Pain Management.
  • Australian pain management health practitioner education strategy
    Feb 1, 2021
    The Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists is currently leading a federal Department of Health-funded project to develop an overarching pain management education strategy for Australian health practitioners.
  • Active ingredient prescribing grace period introduced
    Jan 21, 2021
    During the transition to Active Ingredient Prescribing, the Department has agreed to provide a six-month grace period for pharmacy, ceasing 31 July 2021. Within this period, if a pharmacy receives a prescription that does not meet active ingredient prescribing requirements the pharmacists have been advised to contact the prescriber and request the prescription be re-issued in accordance with the requirements that come into effective on 1 February 2021.
  • My Health Record COVID-19 test results now available to patients after 24 hours
    Jan 20, 2021
    As part of the Australian Government’s pandemic response, a change will be made in the My Health Record system so that COVID-19 pathology reports are available to patients in their My Health Record sooner. This change has been made in consultation with industry and government stakeholders.
  • College representative for Intellectual Disability Roundtables
    Jan 6, 2021
    The College is seeking representatives to attend discussions Roundtables which have been convened by the Department of Health as part of the development of a national roadmap for improving the health of Australians with intellectual disability. The roadmap will be implemented from 2020 as part of the 10 Year Primary Health Care Plan.
  • College representative for Palliative Care Australia’s Project Working Group
    Jan 5, 2021
    To support health practitioners in their delivery of generalist palliative care, Palliative Care Australia (PCA) is developing a Generalist Supplement to the National Palliative Care Standards. This work will be assisted by a consultancy firm, Aspex Consulting; the work is due to be completed by November 2021.
  • College representative for Cancer Australia’s Intercollegiate Advisory Group
    Jan 5, 2021
    The College has been invited to nominate a representative to join Cancer Australia’s Intercollegiate Advisory Group (ICAG).
  • Prescribers need to plan for software upgrade
    Dec 15, 2020
    From Monday 1 February 2021 the Australian Government is mandating that prescribers must include the active ingredient names when preparing PBS and RPBS prescriptions. A software upgrade will be required so that only compliant scripts are printed from February. We recommend getting in contact with your software provider.
  • Rural Generalist Advanced Skills Training workshop
    Dec 15, 2020
    The Queensland Rural Generalist Pathway, Darling Downs Health are running a Rural Generalist Advanced Skills Training introductory workshop for registrars who are starting their AST in internal medicine, mental health or paediatrics in 2021.
  • New Transition to College-Led Training Advisory Committee
    Dec 10, 2020
    ACRRM is playing an important role in the new Transition to College-Led Training Advisory Committee (TCLTAC), formed by the Department of Health and co-chaired by Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Principal Medical Advisor Professor Michael Kidd AM, and Rural Health Commissioner Professor Ruth Stewart.
  • Congratulations to ACRRM and RDAA Awards Week winners
    Dec 10, 2020
    Congratulations to the very deserving winners of ACRRM and RDAA Awards Week who have been recognised for their dedication and commitment to rural and remote medicine.
  • MedicalDirector critical release for Active Ingredient Prescribing
    Dec 10, 2020
    MedicalDirector has made Active Ingredient Prescribing available in its Helix and Clinical 4.0 packages, from November, 2020, to support changes to prescribing legislation in Australia.
  • Scheduled website maintenance 11-13 December 2020
    Dec 3, 2020
    Please be advised that a system upgrade will occur on ACRRM servers from 6.00pm on Friday 11 December until 5.00pm on Sunday 13 December 2020 which will result in downtime of the College website, My College and ACRRM Online Learning, as well as Connect@ACRRM.
  • Scheduled website outage 11-14 December 2020
    Nov 30, 2020
    Please be advised that a system upgrade will occur on ACRRM servers from 6.00pm on Friday 11 December until 8.00am on Monday 14 December 2020 which will result in downtime of the College website, My College and ACRRM Online Learning, as well as Connect@ACRRM.
  • New website for National Cervical Screening Program
    Nov 30, 2020
    The National Cervical Screening Program’s content formally hosted on Cancerscreening.gov.au has been moved to www.health.gov.au/NCSP and the content of the pages has been reviewed and adapted.
  • SPONSORED: Empowering more doctors to prescribe exercise as medicine
    Nov 25, 2020
    Exercise is the best, cheapest, and most accessible medicine available, and in order to improve chronic disease mortality rates, people need to move more. Exercise Right is partnering with Exercise is Medicine® (EIM) Australia to help empower doctors around Australia to prescribe exercise as medicine with FREE online education accredited by ACRRM.
  • Feedback welcomed: Discussion Paper on GP Trainee Employment Models
    Nov 18, 2020
    The College has been invited to provide its feedback to the Department of Health on its Discussion Paper outlining a range of proposed reform opportunities for general practice training employment arrangements. The GPRA have also provided a Statement on these issues.