Introduction by Croakey: Collaboration, communication and adaptability have proven to be crucial skills among national and health care leaders in efforts to confront the myriad challenges pr... Read more
Outpatient care falls between multiple cracks in our health system: hospital/GP, public/private and federal/state. Perhaps for these reasons, this sector has been neglected by governments a... Read more
The curve has flattened, more protective gear is being imported and manufactured locally, and the Federal Government has responded by partially winding back a ban on elective surgery. But wi... Read more
As reported earlier at Croakey, the circumstances surrounding a coronavirus outbreak have thrown North West Regional Hospital in Burnie, Tasmania, and its staff into the spotlight this week.... Read more
In her latest edition of The Health Wrap, Dr Lesley Russell looks at the pandemic’s intersections with wider determinants of health inequity, the latest news in vaccine development, a... Read more
In an occasional series, public health researcher Alison Barrett reports on key public health news, research and developments in the COVID-19 pandemic. Impacts of COVID-19 on people experien... Read more
Australia’s 657 private and not-for-profit hospitals will be integrated into the public hospital system during the COVID-19 pandemic response under an historic arrangement with governments t... Read more
Mark Ragg writes: The health sector has reacted with horror to the National Cabinet’s backdown on plans to suspend elective surgery in public and private hospitals at short notice. On the mo... Read more
Amid the unending stream of COVID-19 news (see the 17 March statement from the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee), it’s easy for the voices of rural, regional and remote... Read more
The health section of the 2020 Report on Government Services (The Report) by the Productivity Commission was released last week. This annual report provides information on the equity, effec... Read more
