Continuing the theme of a recent Croakey post, below are some more suggestions for the new Health Minister Tanya Plibersek from Crikey Health and Medical Panel members,... Read more
Hola – I am back on deck. A large thanks to Jennifer Doggett for driving Croakey while I was away, and to Ben Harris-Roxas for looking after the Twitter feed. As previously mentioned,... Read more
It seems obvious that aged care facilities are not an appropriate place for young people, yet it appears frustratingly difficult to provide accommodation for this small but very important gr... Read more
It is time for action to implement the “landmark blueprint” for aged care reforms recommended by the Productivity Commission’s recently released Caring for Older Australians repo... Read more
This article is cross-posted from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library’s FlagPost blog. Rebecca de Boer writes: Last week, the Government released the Productivity Commission’s (PC) report... Read more
The Productivity Commission’s report, Caring for Older Australians, was released yesterday and makes 19 pages of recommendations. Links to some of the coverage and analysis are at the bottom... Read more
In the previous post, the University of Queensland’s Professor Philip Davies asked whether we’d been having “cappuccino-style” health reform – an approach focused on the mi... Read more
Continuing a series of regular updates of health and medical reading at The Conversation… Fron Jackson-Webb writes: Here are some our health and medical highlights from the past fortni... Read more
In a recent Croakey post, I asked for readers’ suggestions for improving a presentation to a Palliative Care Australia forum on how social media might help palliative care. When I came to fi... Read more
The devil, as they always say, is in the detail. A Keen Observer has been looking at some of the devilish detail in the health budget papers, and provided Croakey readers with these observat... Read more
