Powerful voices for change at the Consumer Health Forum’s recent Shifting Gears Summit called for full partnership with clinicians in designing healthcare into the future – laying the... Read more
The Consumers Health Forum’s Shifting Gears Summit last week saw over 800 delegates taking part in an energised discussion about the importance of consumer participation in transforming and... Read more
Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In the meantime, we are re-publishing some of our top articles from 2020. This article was fi... Read more
While people living in rural and remote parts of Australia have higher rates of heart disease, hospitalisations and poorer access to primary health care services than those in metropolitan a... Read more
Over the past five weeks or so, Croakey’s rotated, curated Twitter account, @WePublicHealth, has been shared among participants, viewers and organisers of VicHealth’s #HealthReImagined serie... Read more
With COVID-19 devastating lives and livelihoods around the globe, health experts are looking for lessons for a better, more equitable tomorrow, where food and job security, people-focused ur... Read more
The spread of COVID-19 around the world has shone a light on overcrowded prisons and, in Australia, the high and growing incarceration rates for First Nations people. In the second of two #C... Read more
Around the world, the novel coronavirus has spread rapidly throughout many prisons, and in Australia prisoners and their families are anxious about the potential threat from outbreaks here,... Read more
As coronavirus infection rates decline across Australia and social distancing rules are relaxed, mental health experts are warning of a second wave: a surge in people seeking mental health s... Read more
The curve has flattened, more protective gear is being imported and manufactured locally, and the Federal Government has responded by partially winding back a ban on elective surgery. But wi... Read more
