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
After the release last week of the latest national hospital stats, SA’s Premier Mike Rann got busy on Twitter. Read more
The Mental Health Coordinating Council has been analysing the mental health policies of the major parties in the run-up to the NSW election (at least those released so far). Thanks to Tully... Read more
Croakey readers had a long wish list for what you wanted covered at the national rural health conference in Perth this week. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get to nearly as many of the sessions a... Read more
Two particularly searing critiques of the health sector were given yesterday on the final day of the national rural health conference in Perth. John Menadue, of the Centre for Policy Develop... Read more
