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
Introduction by Croakey: If large numbers of Australians require urgent hospital treatment for the novel coronavirus, how will the system cope? With great difficulty, one would assume, given... Read more
In an ode to primary care published ahead of the Federal election last year, GP Dr Karen Price suggested Australia could learn from Denmark, which has been able to dramatically reduce the nu... Read more
The post below originally appeared in The Conversation as part of its Designing Hospitals series which explores how architecture and design shape our hospitals and medical centres. This arti... Read more
