March 31, 2009 – 12:18 pm
Lesley Russell and Robert Wells, of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney/Australian National University, write:
“The communiqué from the most recent meeting of the Australian Health Ministers Conference on March 5 announced the launch of Australia’s new National Mental Health Policy 2008, describing it as representing ‘a renewed commitment by all governments to [...]
March 30, 2009 – 11:56 am
Dr Patrick Bolton, Vice President, Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association, has some further interesting points to make on surgical safety:
“The recent study which showed that the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist reduced postoperative complications by an average of 36% and resulted in a fall in the total in-hospital death rate from 1.5% to 0.8% takes one [...]
March 30, 2009 – 11:17 am
Professor Guy Maddern, professor of surgery at the University of Adelaide, has sent in the following comment re previous posts on whether Australian hospitals should implement the WHO checklist to improve surgical safety:
“Surgery has over many years increased its range of checklists to help ensure patient safety and efficiency. Surgical instrument counts, pre-admission check lists [...]
Professor Chris Baggoley, Chief Executive, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, has sent in the following comment re the recent post on whether Australian hospitals should be implementing the WHO surgical safety checklist to reduce deaths and complications associated with surgery:
“The Commission is very keen to work with (and has spoken to) the [...]
Unlike most diagnostic tests, the retrospectoscope is universally reliable, even in the hands of a journalist like myself.
With the benefit of the retrospectoscope, it now seems so obvious. What were we thinking, expecting that there suddenly would be miraculous clarity around the vexed issue of prostate cancer screening, just because some randomised controlled trials were [...]
A study comparing outcomes for public and private hospital births was published in the Medical Journal of Australia in February.
It attracted dramatic headlines. “Public hospital births double risk for mother and baby, says report,” said the Age. “Babies die less often in private hospitals,” said the Australian. “Private hospital births safer than public: study,” from [...]
Should Australian hospitals be required to implement the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist which has been shown to reduce post operative deaths and complications?
The UK National Patient Safety Agency has issued an alert requiring all healthcare organisations in England and Wales to implement the checklist (adapted for England and Wales) for every patient undergoing a surgical [...]
The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association is circulating this press release as part of its regular news update.
The release quotes “a recent study by University of Westminster in London” showing that warm air hand dryers cause an average 254 percent increase in the number of bacteria on the palms of people’s hands as well as [...]
March 23, 2009 – 11:03 am
John Greatorex, a Darwin-based academic who has previously worked as a teacher in north-east Arnhem Land for 30 years, has written the following detailed response to the Inside Story article on media reporting of Aboriginal health:
“I remember when the NT Intervention was announced, many families rang asking why the government was sending the army to [...]
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Posted in Indigenous education, Indigenous health, Media-related issues, complementary medicines
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Tagged distance learning, First Nation languages, Fran Kelly, homelands, Indigenous education, Indigenous health, interpreters, NT Intervention, Yolngu
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Professor Gavin Mooney, health economist, writes:
Just 10 days after my Crikey article expressing concern about the lack of information I received from urologists about the probabilities of various outcomes following a raised PSA level for testing for prostatic cancer, lo and behold I have the information!
And it is good news for me – and not [...]
