There are three phases to Australia’s response plan. The ‘Initial Action’ stage, the ‘Targeted Action’ stage, and finally, the ‘Standdown’ stage. Right now, we’re in the first.
We need to recapture the humanity of the NHS and make doctors feel more than grinding cogs in a brutal machine.
Sunshine Coast University Hospital uses evidence-based design to provide outside spaces with views that Indigenous people tell us they value.
Architectus
Many Indigenous people tell us they find hospitals stressful, uncomfortable and alienating. Here’s how good design can help.
This aquarium at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne helps reframe hospitals as exciting hubs of activity with things to do and friends to meet.
Shannon McGrath/Advanced Aquarium Technologiess
The design of children’s hospitals and other health facilities for young people have come a long way from the institutions of the past. Now, they’re a place to reduce stress and support mental health.
The grand facade of Sydney’s Rum Hospital did little to improve patients’ accommodation.
Charles Pickering/State Library of NSW
If hospitals are not thoroughly cleaned, patients may be at higher risk of infection. We tested a new approach to hospital cleaning, and found it could reduce infections and save money.
What rights do you have when discussing medical treatments or test results with your doctor?
from www.shutterstock.com
It’s all very well having rights. But what do these rights really mean when you’re with your GP, in hospital or in a nursing home?
Drips and other medical devices were potential sources of infection. But no-one expected to find hospital-acquired pneumonia and urinary tract infections.
from www.shutterstock.com
I went to talk to men at football matches about why they don’t want to become nurses – here’s what I found out.
Labor has promised A$8 billion in new health expenditure, while the Coalition has focused on the difference new pharmaceuticals can make to individual Australians.
Shutterstock
At the Brisbane launch Shorten will emphasise the link between the tough economic decisions Labor has made and the ability provided to spend on health and other services.
Labor has committed to increase bulk billing for a number of Medicare items for cancer care.
AAP/Tracey Nearmy
Health has taken centre stage of the election campaign. Here’s what you need to know to make sense of the claims (and counter claims) of the major parties so far.
The Coalition’s record on health is patchy, at best. Meanwhile, Labor is already campaigning hard on Medicare.
Shutterstock
Subsidies for private health insurance premiums cost the government over A$6 billion a year. Is it time to scrap the rebate and redirect these funds elsewhere in the health system?
Many patients are surprised to learn what their health care procedures cost.
9dream studio/shutterstock.com
Hospitals are now required to post their prices online. This approach is unlikely to change US health care – but better price transparency tools could actually reduce costs.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne