Tag Archives: primary care

Are you aware of the irony, Mr Rudd?

July 28, 2009 – 12:00 pm

How ironic.
The Prime Minister launches the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report stressing the need to boost primary care. And then what does he do? Takes off, with Minister Roxon, on a tour of teaching hospitals. The impact will be to once again focus public attention and debate upon hospitals. You can bet the [...]

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Hearing one thing, but doing another?

May 13, 2009 – 6:42 pm

Questions are being asked about whether there is a pattern of inconsistency emerging. First we have evidence, as per the previous post, that the Government is planning something quite different for the National Preventive Health Agency than what the experts have recommended for it.
Now compare and contrast the following two statements – the first from [...]

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It’s time to tackle inequalities in health: Bob Wells

January 30, 2009 – 1:54 pm

Robert Wells, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, writes:
Mark Ragg’s analysis of the Australian health system is an elegantly simple document with a profound message. In all our argy-bargy about ‘blame games’, funding systems, ‘improved service delivery’ and ‘more appropriate models of care’, perhaps we have lost sight of a fundamental fact: the health system [...]

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