Sydney psychiatrist Professor Alan Rosen has previously shared his concerns about the 4th National Mental Health Plan with Croakey readers here and here.
Now he has written a report for Croakey on a forum held in Melbourne last month to provide the Feds with some feedback from the outside world. He writes:
“Can the better bits [...]
There are new entries to the Croakey Register of Unreleased Documents. CRUD records the details of evaluations, plans, reviews and other such documents that should be released (whether by governments or other commissioning bodies), in the interests of promoting better informed policy, practice and debate.
The new entries are:
• Evaluation of the Rural Clinical Schools [...]
This report in The Age on Tuesday was titled “death knell for homelands”. It said that “thousands of Aborigines living on their remote Northern Territory homelands will be forced to move to larger communities to receive key government services in a radical shake-up of indigenous policy”.
Professor Kerin O’Dea, Director of the Sansom Institute at the [...]
Dr Alex Wodak marks a significant anniversary:
In 1999, 1,116 young Australians died from a heroin overdose. In parts of the country, more young Australians were dying from a heroin overdose than from car crashes. There were six heroin overdose deaths in 1964.
NSW accounts for half the heroin overdose deaths in Australia with 10% of these [...]
The controversial sponsorship deal between Sanofi-Aventis and the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute has been found to be in breach of the Medicines Australia code of conduct.
Under the deal, for every Plavix script dispensed through retail pharmacy in 2009, Sanofi-Aventis agreed to donate 25 cents to support the Baker’s medical research and preventative health [...]
While the front pages and buckets of airtime are being devoured by the question of whether the wealthy should have to pay more for their private health insurance, there are other, far more important things that you could be reading about.
The 18 May edition of the Medical Journal of Australia is devoted to Indigenous health, [...]
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Dr Lesley Russell, of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, has been analysing what the budget means for health policy and finds it lacking:
The exigencies of the global financial crisis and its consequences always meant that the 2009-10 budget was going to be more about targeted new spending and lots of budget cuts in current [...]
Dr Lesley Russell, of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, writes:
The Department of Health and Ageing website lists 129 mental health publications, of which 28 are described as ‘historical’ and 4 have been rescinded. Of these 129 publications, 11 have been published during the tenure of the Rudd Government, 89 were published between 2007 and [...]
The Assistant Treasurer, Chris Bowen, has announced that the Productivity Commission will study the relative performance of the public and private hospital systems.
The study will compare treatment costs, including out-of pocket patient expenses and rates of fully informed financial consent. Rates of hospital acquired infections and other indicators will also be considered.
The findings, due within [...]
I’ve been struck by how public debate has framed changes to the private health insurance rebate as “an attack on middle class welfare”.
This distracts attention from the arguably more important issue that PHI is considered by many to be an inefficient, inequitable way of funding health care. It also seems to undermine community understanding of [...]
