Tag Archives: Carol Bennett

What really matters in health?

“Primary healthcare reform is the single most  important strategy for improving our health and making the health system sustainable.  Community-level prevention and primary healthcare is essential to restoring universalism and efficiency in Australian healthcare.”
That quote actually comes from the Preventative Health Taskforce report. I thought it worth mentioning because the draft of the first national [...]

Stop exploiting us – consumers tell ophthalmologists

“Patients will suffer if the Government does this.” It’s a time-honoured line that the powerful players in the health and medical industry are quick to trot out when their interests are threatened. Sometimes they’re right – that patients’ or the broader community’s interests are at stake. But often the real agenda is much more about [...]