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Updating Croakey Register of Unreleased Documents

April 27, 2009 – 9:03 am

There is a new entry to 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.
The new entry is:
• The NSW Radiotherapy Plan  2006-2011
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Looking more deeply into cancer and inequality: Andrew Penman

January 30, 2009 – 2:08 pm

Dr Andrew Penman, Chief Executive Officer, Cancer Council NSW, writes:
Ragg reminds us that equity in health outcomes is a value more promoted in the health service than realised.  But there’s more to differences in cancer survival than a headline.  He needs to dig deeper to separate wheat from chaff.
First point to make is that not [...]

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