Tag Archives: primary health care

What future for general practice – the cry from a rural GP

September 3, 2009 – 7:21 pm

The current focus on primary health care reform has left GPs feeling confused, nervous and anxious, if this piece from rural GP David Monash is anything to go by. He writes:
“The elephant in the room that is not being spoken of or referred to in the current plethora of reports and indicated reforms in the [...]

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Why doesn’t primary health care matter to the NHMRC?

September 3, 2009 – 1:12 pm

In the week that two major reports have stressed the importance of primary health care, it is more than a touch ironic that the new members of the National Health and Medical Research Council were also announced – without a single member there to wave the flag for primary health care.
You can see the new [...]

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What really matters in health?

September 2, 2009 – 3:51 pm

“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 [...]

By Croakey | Posted in Health inequalities, general practice, health reform, primary health care, public health | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

Jeff McMullen’s tips for beating the “lazy addiction to adversarial journalism”

March 6, 2009 – 1:08 pm

Following on from earlier posts about the Inside Story article on reporting of Aboriginal health, journalist Jeff McMullen comments:
“In Canberra last night (while giving a short speech and making some remarks at Universities Australia inaugural awards for reporting higher education issues) I had a great talk with Richard Larkins and many outstanding VC’s about some [...]

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How to resuscitate primary health care

December 1, 2008 – 9:03 pm

Professor Stephen Leeder, Director of the Australian Health Policy Institute, writes:
The recent Crikey article raising serious questions about the future of primary care is timely in view of the problems facing general practice in Australia.
We need a national approach to general practice that invests five times the current level in it: to achieve best [...]

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