In this edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell reports on important pandemic publications, extols the benefits of physical activity and high quality primary care, and... Read more
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton has called on health leaders to be “open to new data and new science” in the fight against COVID-19 and other looming existential threa... Read more
In mental health speak, the “missing middle” is the seven to eight percent of Australians with mental illnesses not severe enough to require hospital treatment whose needs for care are not b... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The need for inspired and inspiring leadership, to shift power dynamics, have trauma-informed care, and understand the exhaustion of many health workers and leaders... Read more
The $2.3 billion commitment to mental health in last week’s Federal Budget has been widely welcomed as a major step towards fixing Australia’s broken mental health system but the task ahead... Read more
How well do the Federal Budget’s aged care announcements address the key recommendations of the Aged Care Royal Commission? The Grattan Institute’s Professor Stephen Duckett and... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: A significant new report — COVID-19: Make it the last pandemic — has blamed a “toxic cocktail” of failures, errors and inequalities that have turned the... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The “shocking global disparity” in access to vaccines remains one of the biggest risks to ending the pandemic, the World Health Organization’s Director-G... Read more
Understanding the impact of the Federal Budget on the health system requires more than just a close analysis of individual funding measures. Taking a ‘bird’s eye’ view can help compare trend... Read more
Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, claimed that the aged care Budget package represented “generational” and “transformative” change but will the $17.7 billion deliver the system overhaul recomm... Read more
