The World Organisation of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations (WONCA), the peak international body for family doctors, this month signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the World Health Organization (WHO) to strengthen collaboration between the two organisations.

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The College has developed a unique set of standards and an audit tool to ensure that small rural hospitals are provided with the minimum resources they need to deliver emergency care to people living in remote areas.

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The period for patients to opt out of having a My Health Record created for them ceases on Thursday 31 January 2019. The creation of the record will be a one-time activity to create an empty shell record for every Australian (who has not opted out).

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Fellows of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine have been recognised for their contributions to medical education, rural general practice and community in the Australia Day 2019 Honors list.

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Are you frustrated with the quality of the information that is stored in medical records in your practice management system? Could you improve your reporting and monitoring of practice improvements if everyone coded their information in the same way?

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Are you working in a drought declared area? Six new Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items were recently introduced to enable GPs and non-specialist medical practitioners to provide general mental health and well-being support services by video conference to patients in drought-affected areas.

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The National Cancer Screening Register has been supporting the renewed National Cervical Screening Program since the commencement of the new HPV-based Cervical Screening Test on 1 December 2017.

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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) has been advised by the Australian Medical Council (AMC) that our full accreditation status as a medical specialist college has been reaffirmed until 2022.

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