As part of its regular myth-busting series, the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation has examined the oft repeated claim that emergency departments are clogged with patients who shou... Read more
The staff at Katoomba Hospital (in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney) – or at least some of them – have clearly had enough. In the cyberworld equivalent of taking to the streets... Read more
Apologies if I’m starting to sound like a one-track record here, but what on earth do Rudd and Roxon think they’re doing with their health reform consultation bandwagon? Maybe I... Read more
Health reform is generating much activity and interest right around the world. What can we learn from the experiences overseas? Dr Mary Haines, Editor of the Hospital Alliance for Research C... Read more
How do we know if our general practice/hospital/dentist/aged care service is providing safe and quality care? At the moment, it’s almost impossible to answer this question in any objective... Read more
Drew Dawson, one of the gurus of sleep research, has written a long and informative piece for Crikey today about the issue of long working hours, fatigue and health service safety. Dawson co... Read more
The Productivity Commission plans to release its draft report on the relative performance of public and private hospitals next month, with the final report due with the Government on Decembe... Read more
Some time ago, an editor with long experience in the medical publishing industry and I were dreaming about creating a new type of health publication that wouldn’t take the narrow focus of so... Read more
The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s final report made numerous recommendations, many of which require a great deal more work before they could be considered ready for... Read more
Health policy analyst Dr Lesley Russell has written an indepth analysis of the state of health reform in the US for the online publication, Inside Story. In this piece for Croakey she writes... Read more
