Cris Kerr, an advocate for the value of patient testimony, especially around e-Health systems, has responded to Paul Smith’s recent report on the National Health and Hospitals Reform C... Read more
The National Rural Health Alliance is one group in health that is worth listening to. Unlike many other health organisations, it is not speaking for the interests of a single professional gr... Read more
Sydney psychiatrist Professor Alan Rosen has previously shared his concerns about the 4th National Mental Health Plan with Croakey readers here and here. Now he has written a report for Croa... Read more
Dr Lesley Russell, of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, has been analysing what the budget means for health policy and finds it lacking: The exigencies of the global financial crisis and... Read more
Dr Lesley Russell, of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, writes: The Department of Health and Ageing website lists 129 mental health publications, of which 28 are described as ‘historical... Read more
I’ve been struck by how public debate has framed changes to the private health insurance rebate as “an attack on middle class welfare”. This distracts attention from the ar... Read more
Questions are being asked about whether there is a pattern of inconsistency emerging. First we have evidence, as per the previous post, that the Government is planning something quite differ... Read more
A well-placed anonymous source has identified some cutbacks in critical areas which, strangely enough, the Budget press releases are not spruiking. The source also raises some pertinent issu... Read more
Professor John Wakerman, Director, Centre for Remote Health, A joint Centre of Flinders University & Charles Darwin University, writes: 1. Hospitals have done well. 2. Indigenous health:... Read more
Andrew Podger writes: The health budget contains a lot of positives. Bearing in mind the major spending initiatives of the last 18 months, including the new Australian Health Care Agreement... Read more
