Tag Archives: Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association

Boosting private hospitals doesn’t help us: public hospital chief

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 [...]

Newsflash: beware the marketing of paper towels

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 [...]