Following on from previous posts, here is another letter to Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mark Butler, from Ken Harvey today (and copied to Graeme Samuel at the Australian Competition... Read more
The Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mark Butler, is coming under pressure over a meeting scheduled between the Therapeutics Goods Administration and industry, which he mentioned in this... Read more
Who will be the first chief of the Australian National Preventive Health Agency? It is such an important job and this will be such a landmark appointment, let’s hope there are many out... Read more
In voting down the Government’s efforts to reform the private health insurance rebate, the Opposition has revealed its poor grasp of health financing issues. So says health policy anal... Read more
The Productivity Commission plans to release its draft report on the relative performance of public and private hospitals next month, with the final report due with the Government on Decembe... Read more
We’ve heard a lot lately about the importance of physical activity for helping to prevent disease, thanks to the release of the Preventative Health Taskforce report. So it’s tim... Read more
The Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mark Butler, issued this release yesterday, clearly intending to allay concerns raised by the Sydney Morning Herald’s stories sounding the alarm... Read more
Croakey recently wondered why the primary health care sector was so absent from the appointments to the new National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). The omission has been somewh... Read more
Some fascinating insights into the mental health sector emerged from a survey of participants at The Mental Health Services conference in Perth last week. The importance of prioritising the... Read more
The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s final report made many suggestions requiring much more work if they are ever to have any chance of implementation. Consultancies must be... Read more
