A new research paper from the Office of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety asks the question Does the quality of residential aged care vary with residents’ financial mean... Read more
Outpatient care falls between multiple cracks in our health system: hospital/GP, public/private and federal/state. Perhaps for these reasons, this sector has been neglected by governments a... Read more
Introduction by Croakey’s Dr Ruth Armstrong: When I worked as a GP in the 1990’s, I used to dream of a scenario whereby I and my patients would have seamless access to a range of... Read more
Hidden in a pack of draft reports from the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Taskforce that were released by the Morrison Government without fanfare just before Christmas are a series... 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
Politics is bad medicine when it comes to taxpayer health and Medicare ought to be ringfenced from partisan brinksmanship by an Independent Medicare Authority, Royal Australian College of Ge... Read more
Medical groups have been raising concerns about the Federal Government’s plans for Health Care Homes (HCH), ahead of a looming 15 December grant deadline for organisations wishing to partici... Read more
In the previous article at Croakey, Associate Professor Peter Sainsbury argued the case to end public subsidies of the private health insurance industry. In the article below, Doctors Reform... Read more
Despite the Medicare indexation freeze Australia’s General Practitioners are working harder than ever, with the population ageing and chronic conditions on the rise, particularly among... Read more
If you’ve been following the debate about the Medicare rebate freeze, you may well have come to the conclusion that GPs are the victims of their own conscientiousness and ingenuity: by worki... Read more
