Many organisations are wondering how to re-set their ways of working so as to meet the needs of their clients. Here Dr Evelyne Tadros, Mission Australia State Leader NSW Metro, describes how... Read more
New Zealand is beating coronavirus. They are the envy of the world – with a realistic chance of eliminating COVID-19 from the country within the next couple of months. A week ago it seemed i... Read more
Mark Ragg writes: The health sector has reacted with horror to the National Cabinet’s backdown on plans to suspend elective surgery in public and private hospitals at short notice. On the mo... Read more
The Australian Government is moving towards funding telehealth more widely, and some governments have started using SMS to keep people informed. But the moves are slow, way slower than in ma... Read more
On 4 March Jinhee Kim, a South Korean public health researcher currently in Australia, wrote in Croakey about her nation’s preparedness for a pandemic. Her article displayed just how far ahe... Read more
Today we begin an occasional series bringing you summaries of public health and scientific publications and developments. We are grateful to Alison Barrett for her effort to monitor the lite... Read more
Last night (23 March) Australia’s deputy chief medical officer, Dr Paul Kelly, said that new protocols determining who can be tested for the virus that causes COVID-19 will be announce... Read more
Health Minister Greg Hunt and Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy came under fire from the host and panel on the ABC’s Insiders program for the Government’s inconsistent and poorly targeted... Read more
Many GPs who in 2018 received Health Department letters regarding their opioid prescribing criticised the strategy to stem over-prescribing, saying it unfairly targeted doctors who had legit... Read more
The health section of the 2020 Report on Government Services (The Report) by the Productivity Commission was released last week. This annual report provides information on the equity, effec... Read more
