The State of our Public Hospitals report released today is the second such document released under Minister Roxon’s reign. The report, whose publication is required under the Australia... Read more
For years, we’ve been repeatedly told that when Governments plough public money into subsidising private health insurance and private hospitals, they’re doing it to help the publ... Read more
Ian McAuley, a Centre for Policy Development Fellow and lecturer in Public Sector Finance at the University of Canberra, wrote this piece in Crikey yesterday, examining why the private healt... Read more
Before jetting off to a new job in Canada a few months ago (read more about this aspect here and here), health reformer Stephen Duckett took time out to reflect on his experiences from the t... Read more
After wading through the waffle of the latest National Mental Health Policy, Australian Doctor’s political editor Paul Smith is less than impressed. Below is an edited version of his column... Read more
The surgeon who everyone loves to read – Atul Gawande – has an article on health care costs in the latest New Yorker that is said to have become required reading for US President... Read more
This excellent article from the Washington Post begins thus: It’s the doctors, stupid. If we really want to fix America’s overpriced and under-performing health-care system, what... Read more
For all the talk about patient-centred care, the reality is that patients’ needs and values are often very far from the centre of decisions in health – whether they be decisions... Read more
For everyone who believes that simply spending more money is the answer to the health system’s woes, this new report should be essential reading. It’s a review of the evidence about efficien... Read more
We have new entries for the Croakey Register of Unreleased Documents. CRUD records the details of evaluations, plans, reviews and other such documents that should be released (whether by gov... Read more
