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The following health and related news items are sourced from National, State and online news, current affairs and opinion sites for October 2007. News is archived monthly into the News Archives
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International News
Other News & Reports
National News
Medicos seize the moment - 20 October,2007
Doctors organisations are pressing the main parties for more health commitments ahead of next month's poll...More
The best treatment - 20 October, 2007
Everyone needing health care wants the best possible treatment. But unfortunately many people find that obtaining optimum ehalth care is more difficult that it should be...More
Abbott waters down hospital plan - 19 October, 2007
Health Minister Tony Abbott has watered down plans to establish experienced local boards for all of Australia's 750 public hospitals...More
PM seeks local control of hospitals - 15 October, 2007
Local control for public hospitals will be one of the pillars of the coalition's health policy, Prime Minister John Howard says...More
Situation is no accident - 6 October, 2007
Visitors to public hospital accident and emergency departments receive 6.5 million consultations and treatments a year...More
Libs weigh hospitals catch-up - 6 October, 2007
The Coalition is considering increasing its proportion of funding for public hospitals after figures showed its spending had not kept pace with that of the states...More
Blame game obscures decades of neglect - 6 October, 2007
Years of neglect of the public health system have created an overgrown variant of Jurassic Park...More
Hospital pass - 6 October, 2007
The abject failure of state Labor governments - over the hospital system in NSW and due process for the pulp mill in Tasmania - deepens the political burdent on John Howard, the aspirational nationalist...More
Doctors slam federal hospital funding - 5 October, 2007
The federal Government must match the state's funding of hospitals and take more responsibility for their woes, doctors say...More
Make doctors work 'like bush teachers' - 4 October, 2007
Doctors should be made to work in the bush, the same way as public school teachers, as a way of curbing Australia's region medical workforce shortages...More
Rudd faults Abbott plan for health - 3 October, 2007
The Coalition's proposed overhaul of public hospital governance would create another layer of bureaucracy without improving Australia's health system, the Opposition said yesterday...More
State ministers united against return to boards - 3 October, 2007
State Labor governments across the country have rejected the federal Government's bid to return hospital governance to local boards, warning that the model has been tried and discredited...More
PM health plan to bypass states - 2 October, 2007
A re-elected Howard Government would bypass state governments to boost health funding through direct deals with public hospital administrators...More
State News
Iemma must go for the doctor to cure state ills - 5 October, 2007
Kevin Rudd is right: being health minister in a state government is one of the most thankless jobs in the world...More
Junior medicos 'afraid to speak out' - 5 October, 2007
Junior doctors in NSW's 220 public hospitals say a climate of fear is undermining the state's emergency units...More
International News
Giving patients a larger voice - 23 October, 2007
Those are questions that increasing numbers of patients ask themselves about such common steps as being screened for lung cancer taking certain drugs and having back surgery...More
Mistakes hospital don't want you to see - 23 October, 2007
Over the past year, hospitals in Washington left "foreign objects" in 36 surgery patients. And 21 people got surgery on the wrong body parts...More
Microsoft offers system to track health records - 5 October, 2007
Microsoft is starting its long-anticipated drive into the consumer health care market by offering free personal health records on the Web and pursuing a strategy that borrows from the company's successful formula in personal computer software...More
Medicare premiums set to rise 3.1% in '08 - 2 October, 2007
Elderly and disabled people will see their monthly Medicare premiums rise 3.1% next year to $96.40 - the lowest increase in six years...More
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