Croakey welcomes feedback from readers on the report, which is available here.
The consumer emphasis is welcomed by Merrilyn Walton, Assoc Prof of Medical Education at the University of Sydney.
She writes:
“At last the consumer voice is on the agenda. Rather than being silent recipients of care, the NHHRC Report recommends their voice be an equal [...]
Croakey has previously argued that the Productivity Commission inquiry into public and private hospital performance has overly narrow terms of reference.
Below you can read some more suggestions for the Commission from several Croakey contributors, but first have a look at how much further the debate on hospital performance has advanced in some other countries.
In the [...]
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Tagged hospital performance, Hospitals, Indigenous health, patient safety, Productivity Commission, rural and remote health
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For years, we’ve been repeatedly told that when Governments plough public money into subsidising private health insurance and private hospitals, they’re doing it to help the public hospital system.
Prue Power is executive director of the Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association, which represents public healthcare, and whose members include Queensland Health, South Australian Health, Tasmanian [...]
Late last night, the House of Reps Standing Committee on Health and Ageing released its report on the inquiry into obesity in Australia, called Weighing it up: Obesity in Australia.
It has taken a safe line on food industry regulation, calling for a “phased” approach, urging that self-regulation be the first option, and that there should [...]
We have a new entry for 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.
An eagle-eyed Croakey source noted this link from the Australian [...]
The National Rural Health Alliance is one group in health that is worth listening to. Unlike many other health organisations, it is not speaking for the interests of a single professional group or a single disease lobby, but is attempting to represent the broader community’s interests (and believe me, for all the fine words spoken [...]
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 [...]
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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Also posted in Food, Health inequalities, Hospitals, Indigenous health, Journal articles, Media-related issues, childbirth and maternity services, chronic diseases, dental care, prevention, private health insurance, public health
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Tagged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, COAG, Indigenous health, maternity services, Medical Journal of Australia, pregnancy, smoking
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Professor John Wakerman, Director, Centre for Remote Health, A joint Centre of Flinders University & Charles Darwin University, writes:
1. Hospitals have done well.
2. Indigenous health: continuing support for closing the gap is wellreceived. Continuing support for the Expanded Health Services Delivery
Initiative in NT is welcome. We need this strategic approach toimproving PHC services nationally, not [...]
