The pandemic has highlighted an urgent need for more timely and meaningful reporting of health data, according to Alison Verhoeven, CEO of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association... Read more
Australia has no national minimum data set for primary health care. This means that no comprehensive, ongoing data set exists in this country that can show how and why people use and access... Read more
With a swathe of government reviews underway into health spending and funding, and conflict over the supremacy of primary vs tertiary care, today’s AIHW figures on expenditure by secto... Read more
Croakey has been wondering what the trend towards MyWebsites – like MyHospitals, MySchool, MySuper etc – says about where Australia is heading. Is there more to us than me, mysel... Read more
Tomorrow night (Tuesday, June 22), I have the opportunity to grill the Australian of the Year, Professor Pat McGorry, at an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare function. I recently pu... Read more