(PostScript: Croakey is taking a week’s leave. See you around Oct 11 or so…) A recent Croakey post reported on moves by the Canadian Government to stifle scientific contributions... Read more
The previous Croakey post noted the glaring absence of health from the election campaign. If voters are hanging on health policy discussion to determine how they swing, tonight’s non-debate... Read more
Health policy, let’s be honest, is a turn off for most media managers and editors. Given a choice between a cancer breakthrough (even if it is only in rats) and a change to how health servic... Read more
How could the quality of health reporting be lifted? Here are some suggestions from recent initiatives and articles, in the first part of a mega-wrap covering media and health-related issues... Read more
Some more pieces in the swine flu puzzle appear in today’s edition of the Medical Journal of Australia (some of the articles were previously rapid online publications). When you put th... Read more
A call for hospital management to return to arrangements of the past has drawn fire from former senior health service manager Michael Moodie and health economist Professor Gavin Mooney. They... Read more
Given the relative mildness of swine flu, has Australia’s response been appropriate? It’s a worthy question that will, no doubt, be debated for some time. In the journal Rural and Remote Hea... Read more
Dr Lesley Russell, of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, has been analysing what the budget means for health policy and finds it lacking: The exigencies of the global financial crisis and... Read more
I’ve been struck by how public debate has framed changes to the private health insurance rebate as “an attack on middle class welfare”. This distracts attention from the ar... Read more
Questions are being asked about whether there is a pattern of inconsistency emerging. First we have evidence, as per the previous post, that the Government is planning something quite differ... Read more
