A tweet. That’s how I found out about the death of a former colleague from suicide recently. I hadn’t seen him for years, but remembered him as a competent, approachable registrar – enthusia... Read more
You’ve probably heard the news in the past few days that a report from the US-based Commonwealth Fund has ranked Australia’s overall health system performance as much better than that of the... Read more
Just over a week ago, at a United Nations meeting in New York, more than 120 countries approved a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. The treaty, after it is signed in a few months, will outlaw t... Read more
The post below and its embedded short film contain confronting material about the participation of nurses in tens of thousands of state sanctioned murders in Nazi era Europe. It would be eas... Read more
As Britain prepares for Brexit to disrupt many of its established trade networks, a coalition of more than 80 English food and farming organisations has launched A People’s Food Policy. The... Read more
Planetary health is defined as “the health of human civilisation and the state of the natural systems on which it depends,” and the news is not good. Recent contributions to our knowledge on... Read more
What do federal government policy initiatives look like when they ‘trickle down’ to individual groups, communities and people? Inevitably they will have different implications in different s... Read more
As France announces plans to end coal-generated electricity production by 2022, end the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040 and become carbon neutral by 2050, Australia continues t... Read more
Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before (with a nod to The Smiths): …the health system needs to focus more on prevention and to strengthen primary health care, especially for... Read more
In a recent speech to the Institute of Public Administration Australia, Professor Ian Anderson AO highlighted the importance of high quality data for local and regional decision-making in In... Read more
