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
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
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