Tag Archives: child protection

Why the secrecy about data, when it could help everything from influenza to child protection

The Department of Health and Ageing has called for submissions on proposals for developing healthcare identifiers and related privacy legislation. A Croakey reader, Dr Trevor Kerr is worried that the submissions are not going to be made publicly available.
Below he gives two pertinent case studies of the potential benefits that could flow from healthcare identifiers [...]

Jade, the fat girl of recent headlines, does not exist. As such.

An astute Crikey reader today pointed out an error in a Sydney Morning Herald report of this Medical Journal of Australia article about the child protection issues surrounding severely obese children.
The SMH story described how the case of four-year-old Jade was reported to DOCS because of concerns about her parents’ unwillingness to do anything about [...]