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Behind the headlines on hospital waiting times lies a murky story about lack of structural accountability

Editor: Melissa SweetAuthor: Margaret Fauxon: June 20, 2017In: Croakey longreads, health financing and costs, health reform, hospitals, private health insurance

Not surprisingly, the headlines were fierce when a recent Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report revealed that patients in public hospitals with private health insurance have shor... Read more

The Health Wrap: Budgets, mental health reform, rural health and patient safety

Editor: Kellie BissetAuthor: Barry Dunningon: May 05, 2017In: public health, The Health Wrap

This edition of The Health Wrap is compiled by Barry Dunning, Media and Communications Manager at the Sax Institute. Enjoy the wrap and don’t forget to tweet us @SaxInstitute if you have any... Read more

Kate Granger dies, but a legacy of compassionate health care lives on

Editor: Dr Ruth ArmstrongAuthor: Dr Ruth Armstrongon: July 25, 2016In: consumer health matters, health and medical education, nurses and nursing

This past weekend saw the twitter community remembering, celebrating and mourning Dr Kate Granger, a young English doctor who used her own experiences as a cancer patient to effect lasting c... Read more

The Health Wrap: Race, medicine and justice; health research ups and downs; sweet and sour; scary stuff, and more

Editor: Kellie BissetAuthor: Megan Howeon: April 17, 2016In: The Health Wrap

This fortnight’s Health Wrap is compiled by Megan Howe, Publications Manager at the Sax Institute. Enjoy the Wrap and tweet us via @saxinstitute if you have any ideas for future issues. Race... Read more

Revealing some of the gender and health gaps at COAG

Editor: Melissa SweetAuthor: Melissa Sweeton: April 02, 2016In: #JustJustice, Federal Budget 2014-15, Federal Election 2016, Indigenous health, violence, women's health

As Alice Workman from Buzzfeed captured so eloquently with her tweets (featured above and below), the rhetoric emanating from the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting on Friday r... Read more

Female doctors in Australia are hitting glass ceilings – why?

Editor: Fron Jackson-WebbAuthor: Helen Dickinson & Marie Bismarkon: January 11, 2016In: health reform, health workforce, hospitals

Over the past 30 years, there have been some great achievements in gender equity. The number of women enrolled in professional degrees, such as law and medicine, rose from less than 25% in t... Read more

Australians are undergoing unnecessary surgery – here’s what we can do about it

Editor: Fron Jackson-Webbon: August 17, 2015In: health reform, hospitals, The Conversation

Peter Breadon and Stephen Duckett from the Grattan Institute write: For decades, clinicians and researchers have been concerned about patients getting treatments, including operations, that... Read more

Hospital patients are more likely to die at weekends but seven-day rosters are no panacea

Editor: Fron Jackson-Webbon: August 06, 2015In: hospitals, nurses and nursing, The Conversation

Peter Sivey writes: If you are admitted to a hospital on the weekend, you have a higher chance of dying than if you are admitted during the week. This is known as the “weekend effect”. Evide... Read more

Five options for health reform: what are the chances?

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: June 23, 2015In: health reform, Indigenous health

Five options for health reform – which are not mutually exclusive – are proposed in the Reform of the Federation Discussion Paper, which has been released for public comment. Although the pa... Read more

Private health insurance ‘carrot and stick’ reforms have failed – here’s why

Editor: Fron Jackson-Webbon: April 01, 2015In: general practice, health financing and costs, health reform, hospitals, primary health care, Primary Health Networks, private health insurance, The Conversation

Anne-marie Boxall writes: If your workplace is anything like mine, this week’s private health insurance premium increases might prompt conversations that go something like this: Can you beli... Read more