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Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In... Read more
In the latest update of the health and medical articles at The Conversation… Reema Rattan and Fron Jackson-Webb write: Here are some the highlights from The Conversation’s health and medical sec... Read more
There has been a veritable deluge of budget coverage at Croakey in recent days. To help readers negotiate it all, here is a summary. The stories are grouped under the headings of mental health, Indige... Read more
The budget holds two particularly promising developments for health, says Robert Wells, Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the ANU. Firstly, the mental health announcements suggest so... Read more
Below is some reaction to the University of Queensland’s decision, announced yesterday, to close its physician assistant (PA) program. It comes from two prominent proponents of PAs. Update: more... Read more
The University of Queensland has announced it is dropping its pioneering physician assistant (PA) program. You can read the official reasons in the media release. No doubt there is also a back story (... Read more
Mental health is a particularly fraught area of public policy (as you may have noticed from recent Crikey/Croakey articles on the budget announcements). You could write a book about all the reasons fo... Read more
There are many question marks over the likely impact of the budget’s mental health announcements, says psychiatrist Professor Alan Rosen. A particular concern is the lack of clear support for pu... Read more
Carol Bennett, CEO of the Consumers Health Forum, writes: I would describe last night’s health Budget lock-up as a very quiet gathering which is probably a good indication of general approval by the s... Read more
Kathy Flitcroft, from the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, has previously described the Federal Government’s policy failures around bowel cancer screening. The budget... Read more
(Update, 23 May: see also this comprehensive analysis by Dr Lesley Russell from the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney) The budget’s mental health announcements (outlin... Read more
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