ICFHS Associate Professor Michael Wright delivers final Future Health Seminar of the year

ICFHS Associate Professor Michael Wright, president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), joined us at the Health Translation Hub on 2 December to discuss General Practice: front-line evidence, future directions, and the role of research. Drawing on findings from the latest General Practice Health of the Nation survey, he highlighted growing pressures on GPs, including increasing patient complexity, workforce challenges, and constraints in primary care funding, alongside rising hospital expenditure. Dr Wright also discussed reforms from the Strengthening Medicare Task Force Report - specifically patient enrolment and multidisciplinary care - emphasising the critical role of research in guiding these changes and improving patient outcomes across Australia. He also talked about the sustainability of primary care in terms of both encouraging medical students to consider general practice, and the need to increase expenditure on high value primary care.  Dr Wright is a regular collaborator with ICFHS to inform the modernisation of primary needed to meet future health needs.