Melissa Sweet, health journalist and Croakey moderator, writes: I suffered an adverse reaction at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) conference in Adelaid... Read more
Cris Kerr, an advocate for the value of patient testimony, especially around e-Health systems, has responded to Paul Smith’s recent report on the National Health and Hospitals Reform C... Read more
We have a new entry for the Croakey Register of Unreleased Documents. CRUD records the details of evaluations, plans, reviews and other such documents that should be released (whether by gov... Read more
Dr Craig Dalton, a Public Health Physician and Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle, is looking for people to help with an inno... Read more
The National Rural Health Alliance is one group in health that is worth listening to. Unlike many other health organisations, it is not speaking for the interests of a single professional gr... Read more
Sydney psychiatrist Professor Alan Rosen has previously shared his concerns about the 4th National Mental Health Plan with Croakey readers here and here. Now he has written a report for Croa... Read more
There are new entries to the Croakey Register of Unreleased Documents. CRUD records the details of evaluations, plans, reviews and other such documents that should be released (whether by go... Read more
This report in The Age on Tuesday was titled “death knell for homelands”. It said that “thousands of Aborigines living on their remote Northern Territory homelands will be... Read more
The controversial sponsorship deal between Sanofi-Aventis and the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute has been found to be in breach of the Medicines Australia code of conduct. Under the... Read more
While the front pages and buckets of airtime are being devoured by the question of whether the wealthy should have to pay more for their private health insurance, there are other, far more i... Read more
