Introduction by Croakey: Professor Brendan Murphy, currently the Australian Government’s Chief Medical Officer, will be the new Secretary of the Department of Health, following the retiremen... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: World Health Organisation chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus last week congratulated world leaders for embracing the “political choice” of #HealthForAll... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: Bureaucracy and technology are major barriers to effective patient care across the fragmented silos of Australia’s health system, but the key to better integration lies in... Read more
Why is timely, coordinated access to all the sectors and services needed to maintain health and address health care needs often so hard? Is this a wicked problem, or are there examples of pr... Read more
In his second parliamentary reading of the legislation that established Medicare’s predecessor, Medibank, in 1973, then federal minister for social security, Bill Hayden, described the schem... Read more
Note from Croakey on 12 October: This crowdfunding campaign has been withdrawn as it was not receiving sufficient support. Dr Lesley Russell, a contributing editor at Croakey, has launched a... Read more
Australians value access to affordable, high quality health care and, although it’s not always the first health service that springs to mind, access to pathology testing is an important aspe... Read more
What if the shift to an inequitable two-tier health system in Australia generated a level of public outrage similar to that seen when news broke about cricket cheating? In the article below,... Read more
Some practical steps that health services and health policy makers can take to address health inequities will be explored at a summit in Sydney tomorrow, which journalist and medical student... Read more
The Annual Forum of the UNSW Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity – held in Sydney last Friday – could not have been more timely. Forum participants heard about the importan... Read more
