Below are snippets on the Federal legislative agenda, what Federal MPs are being told (and not told) about health and related policies, and a new Victorian health reform website. What’... Read more
In case you missed it in the Crikey bulletin today…. Health policy analyst Jennifer Doggett writes: All consumers, with the possible exception of medical specialists and senior health... Read more
One of the worst things about election-time is that money talks. We’ve seen this in the advertising campaign run by the company Primary Health Care, we’ve seen it in the tobacco... Read more
From next month, Australians will be able to search a MyHospitals website to find out information about public hospitals, according to recent statements from Health Minister Nicola Roxon and... Read more
(Part 3 of a Croakey series on health reform). Cost-shifting, blame-shifting and patient-shifting are an integral part of our health system, and the COAG health reforms are unlikely to signa... Read more
Amongst the flood of comment and discussion on the Federal Government’s health care reform proposals, I’ve heard very little mention of what it might all mean for quality and sa... Read more
Dr Alex Wodak recently put a useful context around our health reform discussions with this Crikey article, “Ten Well Kept Secrets About Health in Australia”. Meanwhile, a senior health... Read more
Following on from the previous post by John Menadue, health economist Ian McAuley has some suggestions for how billions could be trimmed from health budgets. He writes: “As with any po... Read more
What will the hospital reforms mean for primary health care reform? And when the Government finally gets around to addressing what should be a central part of its health reform agenda, what... Read more