Weekly roundup of the business of general practice

Appointments through Medibank's online doctor pilot, delivered by Amplar Health, rose 34% from July to August, making Medibank the second insurer after Bupa to fund free online GP consults for members with hospital cover.

Since 1 October practices may not add a surcharge to card payments, while card networks still charge them a cost one accountant puts at $2,000 to $5,000 per GP a year.

Ahpra's interim guidance of 24 September covers financial and commercial conflicts of interest, including GP referrals inside vertically integrated groups, and Ahpra can prosecute anyone who incites a practitioner, with fines up to $120,000.

From 1 November GPs can bill four new phone items for chronic condition management plans, and the Healthy Kids Check for three-year-olds starts on the same date.

Heidi, the Melbourne AI scribe used across general practice, raised $475 million in September and is now valued at $1.26 billion, pairing a $140 million Series C led by Blackbird with a $335 million growth investment from the US firm General Catalyst.

The health department has named Healthdirect the delivery partner for Medicare Thriving Kids, the phone and digital front door for parents worried about a child's development, through a closed non-competitive grant, taking on a stream of queries general practice has traditionally been the first stop for.

Bupa's acquisition of Partnered Health, the medical centre group it agreed to buy in June, has been notified to the ACCC, effective 11 September and now at Phase 1 assessment as case MN-50028. Partnered Health's medical centres are classed under general practice medical services.

Medibank's health services arm lifted revenue almost 31% to $634.8 million in FY26, including six months of Better Medical, which it bought during the year for more than $163 million. Its owned network reached 169 GP and medical clinics, and it is targeting seven million GP consultations a year by FY28.

RevenueSA has begun contacting South Australian GP clinics it believes miscalculated the bulk-billing payroll tax exemption, and is auditing practices that stayed out of the amnesty. The exemption, running since July 2024, applies only to payments to contractor GPs.

Almost half of the overseas-trained GPs joining Australia's specialist register now come through the expedited registration pathway, which AHPRA and the Medical Board run rather than the RACGP's own assessment. Between October 2024 and December 2025, 476 applications were granted, 419 of them GPs.

NSW Health has drafted a secondary employment policy that would let it approve, refuse or withdraw doctors' permission to take lawful outside-hours work, including locum, visiting medical officer and private practice roles. ASMOF calls it a 'sweeping annual permission regime', and the AMA and rural doctors warn it will push doctors out of the public system and out of rural towns.

The RACGP's sixth-edition standards make information security and artificial intelligence accreditation criteria in their own right: a tested cyber incident response plan, daily backups with restore checks, a named person responsible for security, and documented patient consent with an opt-out for AI. Assessment still runs on the fifth edition with no date set.

An independent evaluation of the Federal Government's $3.2 billion urgent care clinics program puts the cost of avoiding one emergency department visit at $236, and the AMA has told the auditors to weigh that against funding general practice to do the same work.

More than 3000 doctors are being invited to register as rural generalists, general practice's first subspecialty and a newly protected title. Health ministers approved the new field in September 2025 and registration is now opening.

Advent Partners' Imaging Associates and doctor-owned Radiology SA have raised $360 million and are completing a $700 million merger to form Radia, a top-five radiology group that will grow by acquisition.

The 1 October start for PBS prescribing by endorsed registered nurses is expected to be put on hold after software vendors warned they cannot update and test systems safely in time.

Dr Ramya Raman, a Perth practice owner and the RACGP's WA chair, has won the college presidency with an absolute majority. She is sworn in on 19 November for two years and takes over from Dr Michael Wright.

The RACGP published the sixth edition of its Standards for general practice on 26 August. To stay accredited, a practice must now keep patient records digitally, maintain a documented clinical risk register and record patient consent where it uses AI. Most of its criteria are mandatory, and a few are labelled aspirational.

The Riverside Company has put Altius Group, the Australian allied health business it bought in 2021, up for sale, seeking more than $500 million against earnings of about $50 million on the reported figures. That is roughly ten times earnings, and the closest public read a practice owner gets on what buyers pay for a clinician-staffed services business.

Radiology Partners has moved in front in Livingbridge's sale of the teleradiology group Everlight, reported at about $1 billion. Partners Group has its investment committee approval but depends on credit funds for the money.

RebateRight, a Sydney company selling Medicare eligibility software, says its checks have stopped more than $25 million in claim rejections, testing claims against more than 300 Medicare rules and about 6,000 item numbers before they are lodged. The figure is the company’s own and is not audited.

The Treasurer announced $60 million from the $900 million National Productivity Fund on 14 August, at the Council on Federal Financial Relations meeting, payable to states and territories that remove scope of practice barriers. The 2024 review named general practice among the professions working under restrictions.

Treasury opened public consultation on 19 August into the conditions it attaches to foreign investment approvals, running to 15 September and starting with tax conditions. Any Australian practice or group sold to an offshore buyer clears this regime.

Sixty-four WA GPs finished the state's first ADHD training program and can now assess patients aged 10 and over and prescribe stimulants. The state put $1.3 million behind the program, and more than 400 GPs applied for 65 places.

The ACCC issued an approved determination on 8 August for Partnered Health's acquisition of Ryan Plaza Medical Services, which runs the single Medicine on Second clinic at Maroochydore with 11 GPs, the one live GP matter on its register. Partnered Health is itself Bupa's acquisition target.

GP non-referred bulk billing hit 84.1% for the June quarter, up 2.2 points, and 80.9% across the year. The spread is wide, from 95.8% in South Western Sydney down to 59.3% in the ACT.

Ten practices across New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, from a $75,000 accredited centre at Penrith to a fully managed centre in an MMM2 and DPA location at $2,595,000.

Appin Healthcare Centre, a fully bulk-billing practice with three GPs that opened in July, and Parry Street Family Practice at Newcastle West, purpose-built and private-billing with six GPs, newly opened.

The RACGP's 10 August submission accepts Schedule 2, 3 and 4 medicines conditionally, opposes a general endorsement, and rejects Schedule 8 except within service-level, authority-based models.

Mark Butler launched the National Nursing Workforce Strategy at the Australian College of Nursing conference on Thursday, 28 priorities endorsed by every health minister, with prescribing rules named as the main barrier to nurses working to full scope. No MBS item has changed yet.

Updoc, which says it has served more than a million patients, told account holders in early August that names, emails and postal addresses were taken after unauthorised access on 31 July. No clinical, Medicare or payment data. RACGP newsGP places it in a run of health-sector breaches after Partnered Health.

Twelve practices across New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, from a $75,000 accredited centre at Penrith to a fully managed centre in an MMM2 and DPA location at $2,595,000.

Appin Healthcare Centre, a fully bulk-billing practice with three GPs, and Parry Street Family Practice at Newcastle West, purpose-built and private-billing with six GPs. Both opened in July.

Appin Healthcare Centre, a fully bulk-billing practice with three GPs, and Parry Street Family Practice at Newcastle West, purpose-built and private-billing with six GPs. Both opened in July.

Eleven practices across New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, from a $75,000 accredited centre at Penrith to a fully managed centre in an MMM2 and DPA location at $2,595,000.

Fifty Commonwealth supported places go to eight universities from 2028, ten each to ANU and QUT and five apiece to six others. James Cook University, where 52 per cent of graduates enter GP training, received none. Students starting in 2028 reach fellowship in the middle of the next decade.

The Australian Digital Health Agency will make AU Core and AU CDI the baseline for any FHIR connection to My Health Record, stopping new legacy CDA connections at the end of 2028 and retiring existing ones by mid-2029. Under Share by Default a clinician who cannot share conformantly cannot be paid.

DVA published its 1 July fee schedule late and paid every claim at the post-July rate regardless of what was invoiced. GPs are paid 115 per cent of the listed MBS benefit plus loadings, so item 23 is worth $50.50 against $45.05 for a Medicare card holder, and DVA pays $23.29 a page for medical forms and $41.61 to $225.06 for clinical notes.

Appin Healthcare Centre, a fully bulk-billing practice with three GPs, and Parry Street Family Practice at Newcastle West, purpose-built and private-billing with six GPs. Both opened in July, and both were checked against their own websites this morning.

Fourteen practices across New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, each checked against its own page this morning. The Rowville and Petersham listings both read price on application when checked, so neither carries a price today.

Treasury is formulating a 30 per cent minimum tax on discretionary trust income from 1 July 2028, with income splitting as the stated target. Because the consultation document defines a discretionary trust by exclusion, the service-trust arrangements practices use to collect patient money and pay doctors a percentage of gross fees fall inside that definition.

A year-long TGA review found scope creep, AI influencing clinician decisions, missing monitoring controls and a lack of transparency in some AI-powered clinical scribes. Compliance action is expected over the next twelve months against suppliers who deployed a scribe operating as a medical device without approval.

Tasmanian Labor's 2025 election promise of five government-run bulk-billing clinics has been redirected by the incoming Liberal government to support existing bulk-billing practices instead. AMA Tasmania's new president rejects the principle on the basis that primary care is a federal responsibility.

Inc Ransom published eleven files on 30 July claiming Partnered Health personal information. The company confirms a 23 June incident affecting parts of its network, patient data involved, at least 21 of its 60-plus clinics potentially affected and the OAIC notified, and says it is urgently reviewing whether the published files are authentic. Partnered Health is the target of Bupa's pending acquisition, with foreign investment clearance outstanding.

No new Australian GP practice acquisition has reached the ACCC acquisitions register since Partnered Health's Ryan Plaza notification on 3 July; MN-15027 is still at Phase 1 with the statutory determination period running to 14 August. The Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction has still not appeared as a separate notification, its Foreign Investment Review Board approval is outstanding, and settlement has been flagged for later this year.

Appin Healthcare Centre, a fully bulk-billing practice with three GPs, and Parry Street Family Practice at Newcastle West, purpose-built and private-billing with six GPs. Both opened in July, and both were checked against their own websites this morning.

The practices tracked as on the market are unchanged from yesterday, across New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, and each was checked on its own page this morning; anything sold, under contract or under negotiation has been left off. The allied health listing is a physiotherapy and exercise physiology clinic in regional Victoria on around $1.5m revenue and more than $360,000 adjusted EBITDA.

Healthcare Australia's 2026 guide puts base salary for a GP of eight years or more between $320,000 in the Northern Territory and $400,000 in Western Australia. The figures are the recruiter's own survey work. Most Australian GPs are contractors on a billings percentage rather than salaried, so the guide sets a recruitment floor rather than a practice cost line.

The Advocacy Plan 2026-30 asks every state to align with Queensland's full payroll tax exemption on all GP earnings regardless of billing type or engagement status, and asks that Distribution Priority Area status apply only where undersupply is demonstrable and published. DPA is advertised as a feature on practice listings. These are asks, not law.

Ben Hurst has stepped back as chief executive of HotDoc after fourteen years and David Parfett, an operating principal at AirTree Ventures who has sat on the board for three years, has taken the role on an acting basis. Potentia Capital's purchase was confirmed on 18 February. Booking, recalls and patient messaging for a large part of Australian general practice now run on a platform owned by a private equity firm and led on an interim basis. In Australia the ACCC register still carries no new GP practice deal, and Green Cross Health completed its NZD 270m sale of The Doctors to Tend Health on 31 July.

Appin Healthcare Centre, a fully bulk-billing practice with three founding GPs, and Parry Street Family Practice at Newcastle West, purpose-built and private-billing with six GPs. Both opened in July. A further twelve candidates appeared on the booking platforms in the week to 2 August and are being confirmed before they are named.

Six in New South Wales, five in Victoria, three in Queensland and one in Western Australia, from $75,000 at Penrith to $6.2m in western Sydney. Every listing was checked on its own page this morning and anything sold, under contract or under negotiation has been left off. Allied health practices join the block from today: the first is a physiotherapy and exercise physiology clinic in regional Victoria on around $1.5m revenue and more than $360,000 adjusted EBITDA, with 78 per cent of income from NDIS and TAC funding.

No new Australian GP practice acquisition has reached the ACCC acquisitions register since Partnered Health's Ryan Plaza notification on 3 July; MN-15027 is still at Phase 1 with the statutory determination period running to 14 August, and the Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction has not appeared as a separate notification. Green Cross Health's NZD 270m sale of The Doctors to Tend Health, approved by shareholders on 14 July, was set to complete by the end of July; no completion notice had been posted to the NZX this morning.

The week's two new GP practices in New South Wales stand: Appin NSW, 1 GP, Appin Healthcare Centre, a bulk-billing practice that opened for patients on 29 July; and Newcastle West NSW, 3 GPs, Parry Street Family Practice, a purpose-built private-billing practice that opened on Friday 24 July. Opening dates as each practice publishes them.

The four GP practices first observed on 27 July are still advertised: Petersham NSW, 4 GPs, a bulk-billing practice in Sydney's inner west, and a medical centre with a dental surgery in Western Sydney NSW, both on SEEK Business; Merredin WA, a rural practice in the central wheatbelt, and Armadale WA, a bulk-billing practice coming to market, both on The Health Linc.

No new Australian GP practice acquisition has reached the ACCC acquisitions register since Partnered Health's Ryan Plaza notification on 3 July. That matter, MN-15027, a bid for the Medicine on Second clinic at Maroochydore, is still at Phase 1 with no determination published, and the statutory determination period runs to 14 August. The Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction has not appeared as a separate notification, and the Foreign Investment Review Board approval that deal needs is outstanding. In New Zealand, Green Cross Health's NZD 270m sale of The Doctors to Tend Health is due to complete on 31 July, having been approved by shareholders on 14 July, with no completion notice yet posted to the NZX.

Two new GP practices have opened in New South Wales inside a week: Appin NSW, 1 GP, Appin Healthcare Centre, a bulk-billing practice that opened for patients on 29 July; and Newcastle West NSW, 3 GPs, Parry Street Family Practice, a purpose-built private-billing practice that opened on Friday 24 July. Opening dates as each practice publishes them.

Four GP practices are advertised for sale on the broker marketplaces the Zoo tracks, each first observed on 27 July and carried as its broker publishes it: Petersham NSW, 4 GPs, a bulk-billing practice in Sydney's inner west, and a medical centre with a dental surgery in Western Sydney NSW, both on SEEK Business; Merredin WA, a rural practice in the central wheatbelt, and Armadale WA, a bulk-billing practice coming to market, both on The Health Linc. Only one of the four listings states a GP count. This is advertised stock: a practice sold quietly through a broker's own book never reaches a marketplace, so four is a floor rather than a count of the market.

Radiopharm Theranostics (ASX:RAD) announced the two offers together on 24 July: a US$4.1m registered direct offering of American depositary shares in the United States and an Australian placement and share purchase plan of up to about A$12.7m. Institutions have committed about A$6.7m, and the share purchase plan is open to Australian and New Zealand holders for up to about A$6m. Options attach one for one, exercisable at A$0.018 and expiring on 31 July 2029. Shareholders vote on 11 September and the new securities list on 17 September. Proceeds fund the planned Phase 3 registrational study for RAD101.

Vitrafy Life Sciences (ASX:VFY) raised A$30m in a placement priced at $2.60 a share. Bell Potter lifted its price target after the placement, reading the raise as growth funding. The Motley Fool Australia reported the upgrade on 24 June.

Everlab, a Melbourne preventive healthcare company, raised A$65m in a Series A led by Airtree, with proceeds funding a global rollout. Pulse+IT reported the round on 17 June.

No new Australian GP practice acquisition has reached the ACCC acquisitions register since Partnered Health's Ryan Plaza notification on 3 July. That matter, MN-15027, a bid for the 11-GP Medicine on Second clinic at Maroochydore, is still at Phase 1 with no determination published, and the statutory determination period runs to 14 August. The Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction has not appeared as a separate notification, and the Foreign Investment Review Board approval that deal needs is outstanding. In New Zealand, Green Cross Health's NZD 270m sale of The Doctors to Tend Health is due to complete on 31 July. Shareholders approved it on 14 July, in a poll result filed with the NZX as announcement 476097, and no completion notice has been posted.

Four GP practices are advertised for sale on the broker marketplaces the Zoo tracks, each first observed on 27 July and carried as its broker publishes it: Petersham NSW, 4 GPs, a bulk-billing practice in Sydney's inner west, and a medical centre with a dental surgery in Western Sydney NSW, both on SEEK Business; Merredin WA, a rural practice in the central wheatbelt, and Armadale WA, a bulk-billing practice coming to market, both on The Health Linc. Only one of the four listings states a GP count. This is advertised stock: a practice sold quietly through a broker's own book never reaches a marketplace, so four is a floor rather than a count of the market.

The standing threads checked rather than a new development. No new Australian GP practice acquisition has reached the ACCC register since Partnered Health's 3 July Ryan Plaza notification (MN-15027), which sits at Phase 1, effective 3 July, submissions closed 10 July, no determination published, and the period running to 14 August. The second-half-of-July decision the Zoo flagged has not appeared, and that timing was the Zoo's own expectation rather than an ACCC deadline. The Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction is still absent as a separate notification, so the ACCC and FIRB approvals it needs remain outstanding, and there was no new development in the Partnered Health breach. In New Zealand, Green Cross's NZD 270m sale of The Doctors to Tend holds its 31 July completion target, with nothing on the NZX today.

cohealth, the Melbourne community not-for-profit whose general practice an independent review found wanting on governance, service delivery and financial sustainability, has accepted all recommendations directed to it. The Victorian Government appointed Chris Altis as board monitor on 15 July for an initial 12 months, attending every board and committee meeting and reporting to government. The review made 13 recommendations and found the three clinics it examined would run at a marginal loss under any management. cohealth is a not-for-profit and is not for sale. The state's response to the failures has been oversight and funding rather than an exit.

Four GP practices are advertised for sale on the broker marketplaces the Zoo tracks, each opened and read on the morning of publication and listed as its broker publishes it: Petersham NSW, 4 GPs, a bulk-billing practice in Sydney's inner west, and a medical centre with a dental surgery in Western Sydney NSW, both on SEEK Business; Merredin WA, a rural practice in the central wheatbelt, and Armadale WA, a bulk-billing practice coming to market, both on The Health Linc. Only one of the four listings states a GP count. Two further entries were dropped before publication, one where two records resolved to the same listing and one whose status could not be confirmed. Brokers leave sold stock on their sites, sometimes for years, so a listing counts only once its own status field is read rather than its marketing copy. This is advertised stock: a practice sold quietly through a broker's own book never reaches a marketplace, so four is a floor rather than a count of the market.

The standing threads checked rather than a new development. No new Australian GP practice acquisition has reached the ACCC register since Partnered Health's 3 July Ryan Plaza notification (MN-15027), checked directly on the register this morning: at Phase 1 initial assessment, under assessment, effective 3 July, submissions closed 10 July, no determination published, and the determination period running to 14 August. The second-half-of-July expectation is the Zoo's own rather than an ACCC timetable, so it is our flag that is late, not the regulator, and seven days of the month remain. Nothing else added to the register this month is general practice: the health entries alongside it include veterinary, hearing and pharmaceutical bids. The Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction is still absent as a separate notification, so the ACCC and FIRB approvals that deal needs remain outstanding, and there was no new development today in the Partnered Health breach. In New Zealand, Green Cross's NZD 270m sale of The Doctors to Tend is still targeted for completion by 31 July, seven days out, with nothing on the NZX on completion as at today.

Two determinations on the ACCC's waiver register in the past week involve clinician-owned service networks. On 22 July the ACCC approved a waiver for Frames ExchangeCo, a KKR vehicle, to acquire FYi Holdings, trading as FYihealth, which runs more than 370 optical clinics and retail stores across Canada and the United States; management and active optometry professionals are required to roll over a minimum of about 20 per cent of the acquirer's equity in aggregate, and may elect to roll more. On 17 July it approved a waiver for VC Operations (WA), part of Vets Central, to buy all the business assets of Willunga Veterinary Services and Aldinga Veterinary Services in South Australia. Vets Central runs 82 practices across Australia and New Zealand and has a separate notification on the acquisitions register for the Hills Veterinary Centre, effective 1 July. Neither is a general practice transaction, but both are structures a GP owner meets at sale: a single-site bolt-on into a national clinician-services roll-up, and a practitioner equity rollover written in as a requirement rather than offered as an incentive afterwards.

AdvanCell, a Brisbane radiopharmaceutical company developing targeted alpha therapies on a Lead-212 platform, closed an oversubscribed and upsized US$315m Series D on 15 July, led by Ally Bridge Group and co-led by Alpha Wave, with new investors including Bain Capital Life Sciences, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, Eventide and Velosity Capital. The money funds Phase 3 development of its lead prostate cancer therapy, ADVC001, and manufacturing in the United States. Some coverage carries the round as $450m, which is the Australian dollar conversion of the same raise rather than a second one. This is not primary care and it does not change how a GP practice is valued or bought. Institutional health capital in Australia is going to specialised therapeutics rather than GP networks. Converted, the round is about $450m, close to the price AFR Street Talk reported for the whole Bupa-Partnered Health transaction.

Twenty-two GP practices are on the market across the broker marketplaces the Zoo tracks, with one more under contract and three delisted, one of those in the week to today. The first reading of a Friday count in which every listing is fetched and checked against the broker's own index page. On one marketplace, thirty of its thirty-three listings had already sold: that broker publishes status on the index page and nowhere else, so the listing page still reads as available years after the sale, and most sold entries carry no date. Those thirty are an archive of what has cleared, not stock that moved this week. Of the twenty-two live, NSW and VIC hold seven each, QLD and WA four each; sixteen metropolitan, four regional, two rural or remote. Eight state no asking price and six sit between $500,000 and $1m. The count is a floor: it covers openly advertised stock only, and practices traded quietly through a broker's book never reach a marketplace. A level this week, not a trend; the comparison starts next Friday.

The standing threads checked rather than a new development. No new Australian GP practice acquisition has reached the ACCC register since Partnered Health's 3 July Ryan Plaza notification (MN-15027), re-checked directly this morning: Phase 1 initial assessment, effective 3 July, submissions closed 10 July, no determination published, and the determination period running to 14 August. The second-half-of-July expectation is the Zoo's own rather than an ACCC timetable, so it is our flag that is late, not the regulator, and eight days of the month remain. The Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction is still absent as a separate notification, so the ACCC and FIRB approvals that deal needs remain outstanding, and there was no new development today in the Partnered Health breach. In New Zealand, Green Cross's NZD 270m sale of The Doctors to Tend is still targeted for completion by 31 July, with nothing on the NZX on completion as at today.

Three GP practice operators have disclosed data incidents since mid-June: Ochre Health, Partnered Health and GO2 Health. No Australian buyer, broker or adviser has published a repricing, a new condition or a withdrawn offer tied to any of them, and neither Bupa nor Partnered Health has said whether the breach at Partnered Health engages any provision of their agreement. Nothing visible in this market has yet changed how a practice is priced or bought, which is a different thing from the exposure being small. The exposure was decided in court last October. The Federal Court ordered Australian Clinical Labs to pay $5.8m on 8 October 2025, the first civil penalty under the Privacy Act, over a February 2022 breach at Medlab Pathology whose assets it had bought in December 2021, affecting more than 223,000 people. The liability fell on the acquirer, for the state of a business it had owned about three months, and named firms reading the judgment make the same point about the technical diligence that preceded it. A practice sale transfers the patient data and the condition it was kept in, alongside the billings, the lease and the roster. Whether the liability reaches the level of the market where most practices change hands, or stays with the corporates and groups large enough to be worth suing, is unresolved. Medius analysis.

The standing threads checked rather than a new development. No new Australian GP practice acquisition has reached the ACCC register since Partnered Health's 3 July Ryan Plaza notification (MN-15027), re-checked directly this morning: Phase 1 initial assessment, effective 3 July, submissions concluded, no determination published, and the determination period running to 14 August. The decision expected in the second half of July has not appeared with nine days of the month to run, an expectation the Zoo set rather than one the ACCC published. The Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction is still absent as a separate notification, so the ACCC and FIRB approvals that deal needs remain outstanding, and there was no new development today in the Partnered Health breach. In New Zealand, Green Cross's NZD 270m sale of The Doctors to Tend is still targeted for completion by 31 July, with nothing on the NZX on completion as at today.

A second Australian practice has disclosed a breach inside a week. GO2 Health at Everton Park in Brisbane's north told the ABC that its main email mailbox was accessed in April after a phishing attack. Patients who use the mailbox were alerted on 24 April and the OAIC was notified on 18 May, but affected patients were not emailed until 16 July. The clinic said the mailbox may have held some patients' Department of Veterans' Affairs ID numbers and other information sent to the inbox, that the system where it primarily stores patient information was not accessed, and that the mailbox auto-archives so the exposure covers the preceding 12 months. It said identifying the affected patients took nearly three months. The business point is the notification clock and the fact that an ordinary reception inbox is itself a notifiable asset.

A quiet register day, with the standing threads checked rather than a new development. No new Australian GP practice acquisition has reached the ACCC register since Partnered Health's 3 July Ryan Plaza notification (MN-15027), re-checked directly this morning: still at Phase 1, effective 3 July, submissions concluded, no determination published, and the determination period ending 14 August, with the flagged second-half-of-July decision not yet appeared. The Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction is still absent as a separate notification, so the ACCC and FIRB approvals the deal needs remain outstanding. The data breach at Partnered Health still sits over the acquisition, unchanged since Monday: 21 named clinics, insurer and Veteran Card (DVA) numbers among the information at risk, an interim NSW Supreme Court injunction, and Best Practice cleared. In New Zealand, Green Cross's NZD 270m sale of The Doctors to Tend is still targeted for completion by 31 July, with no completion notice on the NZX today.

Coverage published on Friday afternoon, after that day's scan, added detail to the data breach at Partnered Health, the network Bupa is acquiring. Partnered Health has now named the 21 affected clinics across five states and territories, five still under investigation and 16 where healthcare-record data may be affected, and the information at risk can include Medicare, private health insurance and Veteran Card (DVA) numbers and clinical records where a clinic held them. The patient-management software vendor Best Practice was cleared, confirming Partnered Health as a customer but saying its platform was not compromised and that it is not part of the incident response. Partnered Health holds an interim NSW Supreme Court injunction, and the 22-day gap between detection on 23 June and disclosure on 15 July sits inside the OAIC's 30-day window despite expert criticism. The register has not moved: no new GP practice acquisition since Partnered Health's 3 July Ryan Plaza notification (MN-15027), checked directly this morning, still at Phase 1 with submissions concluded and its determination period ending 14 August.

The Medical Republic reported on 16 July that Bupa's acquisition of Partnered Health remains subject to regulatory approval, with settlement expected later this year. The wording is the outlet's own rather than a quoted Bupa statement, and Bupa's own 18 June announcement set no timetable, saying only that the deal was subject to ACCC and Foreign Investment Review Board approval and other customary conditions. Bupa put distance between itself and the breach at its target, saying Partnered Health 'is not yet owned nor managed by Bupa Australia' and that no Bupa data is affected. The OAIC said organisations generally have 30 days to assess a breach before notifying, placing the 22-day delay inside the statutory window despite the criticism of it. The register has not moved: no new GP practice acquisition since Partnered Health's own 3 July Ryan Plaza notification (MN-15027), checked directly this morning, still at Phase 1 with submissions concluded and its determination period ending 14 August.

Partnered Health, the general practice and skin cancer network Bupa agreed to buy for about $450m on 18 June, told patients on 15 July that an attacker had accessed its systems on 23 June, five days after the deal was announced and while the acquisition still needs ACCC and Foreign Investment Review Board clearance. The group has written to patients at 21 clinics across five states and territories, has confirmed data was taken from 16 of them, and holds an interim NSW Supreme Court injunction against the use or publication of the stolen material. For a buyer mid-clearance this is deal-execution risk, cyber liability and notifiable-breach exposure on top of the ACCC and FIRB conditions. The register has not otherwise moved: no new GP practice acquisition since Partnered Health's own 3 July Ryan Plaza notification (MN-15027), checked directly today, still at Phase 1 with submissions concluded and its determination period ending 14 August.

Green Cross Health shareholders approved the NZD 270m sale of The Doctors to Tend Health at the Auckland annual meeting on Tuesday 14 July; the results notice filed with the NZX records the special resolution as passed, NZ Doctor reported overwhelming support, and completion is now targeted for the end of July. In Australia the register has not moved: no new GP practice acquisition has reached the ACCC register since Partnered Health's 3 July notification, and no determination has been published on that first mandatory-regime matter, its bid for the 11-GP Medicine on Second clinic at Maroochydore (MN-15027). Checked directly on the register today: still at Phase 1, effective 3 July, submission period concluded, determination period ending 14 August. The Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction is still absent.

Green Cross Health held its shareholders' meeting in Auckland today and put the NZD 270m sale of The Doctors to Tend Health to the vote; the board recommended in favour, the NZX poll result was not yet published at the time of writing, and completion is targeted for 31 July if approved. Closer to home no new GP practice acquisition has reached the ACCC register since Partnered Health's 3 July notification, and no determination has been published on that first mandatory-regime matter, its bid for the 11-GP Medicine on Second clinic at Maroochydore (MN-15027). Checked directly on the register today: still at Phase 1, effective 3 July, submissions closed 10 July, with a determination expected in the second half of July. The Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction is still absent.

No new GP practice acquisition reached the ACCC register over the weekend, and no determination has been published on the first mandatory-regime matter, Partnered Health's bid for the 11-GP Medicine on Second clinic at Maroochydore (MN-15027). Checked directly on the register: still at Phase 1, effective 3 July, submissions closed 10 July, with the determination period ending 14 August and a decision likely in the second half of July. The Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction is still absent. Green Cross shareholders vote on the NZD 270m sale of The Doctors to Tend on Tuesday 14 July.

Submissions on Partnered Health's notification for the 11-GP Medicine on Second clinic at Maroochydore (MN-15027) closed today, the last day to put anything to the ACCC, and the matter now moves to the ACCC's Phase 1 determination. Checked directly on the register: still at Phase 1, effective 3 July, no determination published, with the determination period ending 14 August and a decision likely in the second half of July. No new GP practice notification has joined since that filing, and the Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction is still absent. Green Cross shareholders vote on the NZD 270m sale of The Doctors to Tend on 14 July.

Submissions on Partnered Health's notification for the 11-GP Ryan Plaza clinic at Maroochydore (MN-15027) close on Friday 10 July, the last day to put anything to the ACCC. Checked directly on the register today: still at Phase 1, effective 3 July, unchanged, with a determination expected in the second half of July. No new GP practice notification has joined since that filing, and the Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction is still absent. Green Cross shareholders vote on the NZD 270m sale of The Doctors to Tend on 14 July.

No GP practice acquisition has joined the ACCC acquisitions register since Partnered Health's 3 July notification for the Ryan Plaza clinic. Submissions on that first mandatory-regime matter close Friday 10 July, with a Phase 1 determination expected in the second half of July and a statutory deadline in mid-August, and the Bupa-Partnered Health parent transaction is still absent from the register. Green Cross shareholders vote on the sale of The Doctors to Tend on 14 July.

The Medical Republic reports the health department is still updating its implementation guidance for the 1 July 2026 Medicare assignment of benefit changes, with a 12-month transition to 1 July 2027. Administrative rather than a rule change, but it adds to bulk-billing practices' compliance load through the transition year.

The NZX notice of meeting fixes the Green Cross AGM for 14 July in Auckland, with the resolution to approve the NZD 270m sale of The Doctors (65 clinics, 400,000+ enrolled patients) to Tend Health on the agenda and completion expected at the end of July.

Partnered Health notified the ACCC on 3 July of its proposed acquisition of an 11-GP Maroochydore clinic, the first GP practice acquisition on the public register since mandatory notification commenced 1 January. The cumulative threshold bites at single-practice level; submissions close 10 July.

Bupa's announcement did not disclose consideration; AFR Street Talk's 18 June report carried $450m. Taken at face value that implies in the order of $6m per clinic across the group, a first public reference point for how an insurer prices network-scale primary care.

The notification was filed 3 July, the same day as Ryan Plaza. nib sells its ANZ travel portfolio for up to $50m while keeping its health core, the third private health insurer reallocating capital toward core health in 2026.

The town's only general practice closed on 26 June after a fully bulk-billed model became unviable. For buy-side logic this is the floor of the market: where a viable sale is not achievable, closure is the exit.

The enacted reform deems assets sold immediately before 1 July 2027 and reacquired at market value. Owners need a defensible valuation to fix the new cost base, and the ATO methodology guidance is still missing.

Bupa-Partnered Health is still off the ACCC acquisitions register pending clearance, AvidSys-Spectrum completion is unconfirmed, and Medibank/Amplar sits at about 168 to 170 clinics. Sonic's full-year result is expected around August.