While we’re on the subject of hospitals, and how to fund and run them, Dr Harry Hemley has some suggestions for improving Victoria’s casemix funding that he believes may have app... Read more
The timing of Tony Abbott’s health policy pitch – just a few days after the release of the Marmot Review in England – couldn’t have been more telling. While other cou... Read more
Tony Abbott sure knows how to grab airtime and a headline, and has made a respectable media splash for his bid for local boards to run hospitals. But does he really understand what he’... Read more
Have just come across a series of posts on the health implications of the iPad and related technology that may be of interest to the technology buffs and early adapters among you. What iPad... Read more
Never mind this website comparing schools. Health economist Gavin Mooney has been toying with some ideas for other useful new websites. He writes: “My Hospital enables you to search th... Read more
Croakey’s correspondent on all matters North American, Dr Lesley Russell, has a report below on some initiatives aimed at improving patient safety in the US that may have some useful p... Read more
If the Government takes a close look at the health component of the latest CPI figures, there are some clear lessons for policy, says Ian McAuley, a Centre for Policy Development Fellow and... Read more
Continuing his series on mental health reform, Sydney psychiatrist Professor Alan Rosen argues that the states – well most of them anyway – have forfeited the right to run commun... Read more
Some more pieces in the swine flu puzzle appear in today’s edition of the Medical Journal of Australia (some of the articles were previously rapid online publications). When you put th... Read more
Yesterday’s Croakey post about a study examining whether pharmacists could play a greater role in community mental health care has brought a few responses. One of the study’s aut... Read more
