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Dr Andrew Penman, Chief Executive Officer, Cancer Council NSW, writes: Ragg reminds us that equity in health outcomes is a value more promoted in the health service than realised. But there’s more to... Read more
Professor Gavin Mooney writes: Thanks Mark Ragg for providing more evidence that the Australian health care system is unfair. This needs to be said again and again and again. The only thing that is su... Read more
Robert Wells, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, writes: Mark Ragg’s analysis of the Australian health system is an elegantly simple document with a profound message. In all our argy-bargy ab... Read more
Health and communications consultant Mark Ragg spent a fair bit of time wading through health statistics and reports to come up with his own personal assessment of the state of our health system. His... Read more
John Mendoza, Adjunct Professor of Health Science, University of the Sunshine Coast, wants more support for web-based mental health programs: “Gavin Andrews (see previous posts) is absolutely ri... Read more
Dr Peter Cotton, a psychologist, writes in response to Gavin Andrew’s recent article on web-based treatment programs for depression, anxiety and other disorders: “My initial response is th... Read more
Dr John Ashfield, a rural psychotherapist, has added these comments to discussions about the role of web doctoring in mental health (see previous posts for more info): The use of internet technology m... Read more
Professor Chris Baggoley, Chief Executive of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, sent this email in response to my recent post about the complexity of factors which contrib... Read more
In a recent Crikey article, journalist Margaret Simons investigated how The Age newspaper came to publish a column “in error”. Reading about the many factors and circumstances – both systemic an... Read more
Some hundreds of patients with depression, anxiety and other disorders have received online treatment using a sophisticated computerised cognitive behaviour therapy program from the St Vincent’s... Read more
