*** First published at The Conversation *** This year’s budget includes $448.5 to modernise Australia’s Medicare system, by encouraging people with diabetes to sign up to a GP clinic for the... Read more
Following on from the background piece on private patients seeking care in public hospitals, Martyn Goddard explains the driving force behind this practice and outlines how this continuing t... Read more
Few issues highlight the complexity, perversity and the internal contradictions of the Australian health system as clearly as that of private patients in public hospitals. This policy press... Read more
The #Health4NSW Twitter festival profiled key health issues ahead of the NSW election, engaging almost 900 participants on Twitter in a discussion that broadened election health debate beyon... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Whatever their political stripes, the next Federal Government must commit to reforming “the dead cat” of the private health insurance system, according t... Read more
Please download, read and share this conference report compiling our coverage of the 35th annual scientific meeting of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, held in Perth last mo... Read more
Stephen Duckett writes: The A$1.25 billion Community Health and Hospitals Program Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced this week should be awarded a big policy fail. The move sets back Co... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: A string of damaging headlines about Sydney’s new Northern Beaches Hospital in recent weeks is not surprising given the “chequered history” of such public-private pa... Read more
This post-Victorian election edition of the Health Wrap, prepared by Dr Lesley Russell, discusses the Victorian election result, comparing Labor and Liberal policy platforms, recent research... Read more
The newly appointed Victorian Health Minister, Jenny Mikakos, has inherited an ambitious agenda after the Labor Party’s success at last week’s state election. As stated in its pre-election p... Read more
