Thanks to the Croakey reader who has clearly been meticulous in their reading of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report, and has written to sound the alarm that Aboriginal people are not included in the proposal for under-served remote and rural communities to receive top-up funding.
The top-up is aimed at overcoming the [...]
The complexity of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report means it deserves a complex response, suggests Professor John Wakerman, Director of the Centre for Remote Health, a joint initiative of Flinders University & Charles Darwin University. He has filed this analysis for Croakey:
“The greatest understatement in the NHHRC’s final report is that ‘Opportunity [...]
Croakey has previously argued that the Productivity Commission inquiry into public and private hospital performance has overly narrow terms of reference.
Below you can read some more suggestions for the Commission from several Croakey contributors, but first have a look at how much further the debate on hospital performance has advanced in some other countries.
In the [...]
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The National Rural Health Alliance is one group in health that is worth listening to. Unlike many other health organisations, it is not speaking for the interests of a single professional group or a single disease lobby, but is attempting to represent the broader community’s interests (and believe me, for all the fine words spoken [...]
There are new entries 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 entries are:
• Evaluation of the Rural Clinical Schools [...]
Professor John Wakerman, Director, Centre for Remote Health, A joint Centre of Flinders University & Charles Darwin University, writes:
1. Hospitals have done well.
2. Indigenous health: continuing support for closing the gap is wellreceived. Continuing support for the Expanded Health Services Delivery
Initiative in NT is welcome. We need this strategic approach toimproving PHC services nationally, not [...]
January 29, 2009 – 9:37 am
Dr Peter Cotton, a psychologist, writes in response to Gavin Andrew’s recent article on web-based treatment programs for depression, anxiety and other disorders:
“My initial response is that I think this is a very promising and potentially helpful development. It builds on, and is consistent with, emerging research around the web-based delivery of programs for common [...]
January 28, 2009 – 8:49 pm
Dr John Ashfield, a rural psychotherapist, has added these comments to discussions about the role of web doctoring in mental health (see previous posts for more info):
The use of internet technology must inevitably have a place in psychotherapy and psychological treatment of mental health problems and mental disorders – particularly in rural and remote areas [...]
