As 2023 comes to a close, so too does our first year bringing you InSight+ every week. It’s been a challenging year, but also a rewarding one, as the InSight+ team worked hard to bring you the latest medical news and expert opinion with each issue. Before we head off on a well earned holiday, we wanted…
Dr Tanvir Kapoor opens up about his journey in overcoming stigma from obesity, saying judgement has no place in medicine. A few weeks ago, on a popular online forum for Australian general practitioners (GPs), there was a discussion about using the label “obesity” in medical documentation. I want…
Before the health workforce is “unleashed”, we must consider what an appropriate governance system might look like that balances autonomy and agency and apply it to everyone working in primary care. The federal Health Minister the Hon Mark Butler has announced a review designed to “unleash the…
GPs with mental health expertise are leaving the profession, leaving a worrying gap in the delivery of vital frontline mental health care, writes Canberra GP Dr Louise Stone. In part one of this two-part series, I introduced the concept of mental health generalism, a term I use to describe the core…
GPs play a vital role in mental health care, but their place is often overlooked, writes Canberra GP Associate Professor Louise Stone ... When I first moved to Canberra, I was asked to speak at a mental health event. I assumed the organisers had access to my profile and knew that I was teaching into…
An innovative new research project hopes to gain insight into the unique mental health challenges faced by Australian youth, write Louise Stone, Caitlin Pilbeam, Erin Walsh … YOUNG people in Australia have difficulty accessing appropriate mental health support. In the wake of coronavirus disease 2019…
I AM not ashamed to say that huge swathes of 2022 have completely baffled me. Welcome to the last issue of InSight+ for the year, by the way. We’ve had a cracking year, with our readership growing by about 40% on 2021 by user numbers, and our articles being clicked on just shy of 895 000 times in…
IN recent years, GPs have been nudged into changing their clinical practice through the analysis of proxy variables. Our billing, prescribing and pathology testing data and our recording of other proxy variables are analysed by government, and then linked to rewards, or threats designed to change our…