The fund is nothing more than a rebadging exercise in the hope people might think it is a new policy. And it’s being used to airbrush public hospitals out of the Medicare picture.
Mental health remains chronically underfunded.
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The latest Productivity Commission health report reveals some serious problems with out-of-pocket health expenses as well as disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health.
Classifying e-cigarettes as a nicotine replacement therapy could help the tobacco industry influence health policy.
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Classing e-cigarettes as quit smoking aids could help rebrand the tobacco industry as a legitimate player in health policy. Here’s why we should be concerned.
How might US president-elect Donald Trump address Obamacare’s rising costs?
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There’s often limited evidence for many common types of surgery. Understanding what makes good evidence is the key to deciding what’s best for you.
South African HIV rights group, the Treatment Action Campaign, marching through Durban, calling for antiretroviral access for all.
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Current epidemiological and financial trends suggest there’s a major risk of a substantial shortfall in the funds required to sustain life-saving antiretroviral programmes.
Bill Shorten visiting Townsville Hospital on Sunday.
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Labor has pledged to spend $2 billion more than the Coalition on hospitals over four years and brought Bob Hawke into the election campaign.
In a stage-managed moment organised by the Prime Minister’s Office, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison walk together to a car taking them to the airport.
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Premiers and chief ministers on Friday delivered a humiliating public blow to Malcolm Turnbull, bluntly telling him they didn’t want even to think about his “big idea” to allow them to raise income tax…
Malcolm Turnbull invited premiers and chief ministers to The Lodge on Thursday evening ahead of COAG.
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Malcolm Turnbull is the venture capitalist of politics who, with his bid to force the states to raise a slice of income tax, has invested heavily in a risky enterprise.
Malcolm Turnbull plans to raise the idea of states’ access to income tax at this week’s COAG meeting.
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Just when we thought the tax debate was winding down to minimalism, as least as far as the federal government was concerned, Malcolm Turnbull has decided to throw a curveball. The government is preparing…
Nigerian Health Minister Isaac Adewole has a great deal of fixing to the country’s primary healthcare system.
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The Australian Medical Association’s annual Public Hospital Report Card says hospitals are facing “a growing funding crisis” – with their performance virtually stagnant.
The current level of mental health services funding mean we are already failing people who need help.
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A proposal to re-direct a billion dollars of funding from acute hospital mental health services to the community risks causing a major destabilisation of the public mental health system.
The federal government has proposed merging six separate health agencies into a single Health Productivity and Performance Authority.
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The federal budget is expected to confirm news that a number of government agencies, including some health advisory bodies that provide oversight and recommendations based on evidence, will be axed, sold…
Governments setting out to control spending, or move it in more efficient directions, must have strong backbones.
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SECURING AUSTRALIA’S FUTURE: As the Commission of Audit reviews government activity and spending, The Conversation’s experts take a closer look at key policy areas tied to this funding – what’s working…
Health Minister Tanya Plibersek (centre) announced the Commonwealth would pay the $107 million directly to hospitals.
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After months of battle between the Commonwealth and Victorian governments on hospital funding, Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek dramatically intervened last Wednesday by announcing a A$107 million…
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney