November 3, 2009 – 6:47 pm
Continuing the thread from the previous post, the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory is warning that the NT Government’s policy of refusing dialysis treatment for patients from outside the Territory is causing enormous harm.
This is the statement:
AMSANT has written to the Northern Territory Health Minister with a potential solution to needless deaths among [...]
November 3, 2009 – 12:05 pm
Professor Kerry Goulston, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, has sent in the following review of two books likely to interest Croakey readers.
He writes:
“There are two outstanding books which I can highly recommend.
First, “Direct Red” by Gabriel Weston, who is a young Scottish Surgeon and a gifted narrator. She describes openly her [...]
November 2, 2009 – 8:31 pm
A call for hospital management to return to arrangements of the past has drawn fire from former senior health service manager Michael Moodie and health economist Professor Gavin Mooney.
They write:
“John Graham’s suggestion for saving NSW hospitals, as outlined in his recent Centre for Independent Studies monologue, dreams of hospitals managing their own affairs unfettered by [...]
October 16, 2009 – 1:40 pm
As mentioned previously, some staff at Katoomba Hospital in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney have set up an anonymous blog to draw public attention to concerns that they’re not allowed to raise in public.
Not surprisingly, the heavies are cracking down. Here is a brief report from the “who will speak for us” group:
“Things have [...]
October 16, 2009 – 12:46 pm
The Productivity Commission yesterday released its draft discussion paper on the relative performance of public and private hospitals. Croakey has previously complained that the inquiry’s terms of reference seemed a tad narrow and made a submission to the Commission to this effect.
Well, the Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association has had a read and gives the [...]
October 14, 2009 – 1:47 pm
Australia’s international reputation in education has been taking something of a hammering lately. Attacks on overseas students have generated bucketloads of adverse publicity, and the uncertain future facing many international medical students is another issue that won’t go away anytime soon.
Professor Bruce Robinson, dean of medicine at the University of Sydney, thinks one solution may [...]
October 13, 2009 – 10:41 am
A book that was released some years ago examining the impact of market-based reforms of the National Health Service in the UK gives us some timely insights into where Australia is heading.
That’s the warning from Dr Peter Short, a health industry worker with extensive background in clinical work and health professional education, who has provided [...]
October 9, 2009 – 5:14 pm
As part of its regular myth-busting series, the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation has examined the oft repeated claim that emergency departments are clogged with patients who should be seeing GPs.
You can read the article in full here – or skip straight to the conclusion that: …”research suggests that simply reducing noses [...]
October 9, 2009 – 12:37 pm
The staff at Katoomba Hospital (in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney) – or at least some of them – have clearly had enough. In the cyberworld equivalent of taking to the streets, they’ve launched an anonymous blog to tell the public what their bosses won’t let them speak about in public.
You could see it [...]
October 1, 2009 – 6:42 pm
Apologies if I’m starting to sound like a one-track record here, but what on earth do Rudd and Roxon think they’re doing with their health reform consultation bandwagon?
Maybe I’ve missed something but I thought that one of the few areas that just about everyone with an interest in health reform agrees upon is the need [...]
