Tag Archives: health workforce

Will more doctors mean better health?

September 28, 2009 – 12:03 pm

Some people have called it a tsunami; others argue that “a rising tide” is a more accurate description. Whatever methaphor you prefer, one thing is clear. Australia is going to be awash with medical graduates in the very near future.
According to some estimates, the number of domestic medical graduates will rise from 1,348 in 2005 to an [...]

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Nurse practitioners Vs Physician assistants: how do they differ?

September 24, 2009 – 11:23 am

In a recent episode of Crikey’s Diary of a Surgeon, Professor Guy Maddern wrote about the potential of physician assistants to help relieve pressures on our health care system. Physician assistants have been an integral part of the US health system for many decades.
His piece prompted some queries along the lines, what is the difference [...]

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Stop exploiting us – consumers tell ophthalmologists

August 26, 2009 – 3:55 pm

“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 [...]

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A new entry at the Croakey Register of Unreleased Documents

May 25, 2009 – 5:08 pm

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 [...]

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Peter Brooks on the NHHRC – and the need for new types of health professionals

March 2, 2009 – 7:27 am

Peter Brooks,  Executive Dean, Health Sciences, at the University of Queensland and Interim Director of the Australian Health Workforce Institute at the University of Melbourne, has responded to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report:
Australia is, like the rest of the globe, facing significant challenges recruiting health workers from a diminishing  source.
The health workforce [...]

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