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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 September 2008. News is archived monthly into the News Archives
National News
State News
International News
Other News & Reports
National News
New uni nurse courses spread unevenly - 30 September, 2008
Kevin Rudd has made good on an election promise to create 1000 new university spots for nurse trainees each year, announcing 1094 positions to start next year...More
Professions reject Govt control bid - 27 September, 2008
Nurses, midwives, physiotherapists and podiatrists have warned Australia's health ministers to keep their hands off their professions' training standars...More
Roxon to shake up hospital funding - 26 September, 2008
Health Minister Nicola Roxon is set to reignite debate over case-mix funding for the nation's hospitals at next weeks COAG meeting, calling for greater transparency on the cost of medical procedures, safety and efficiency...More
Money returns for GP training - 23 September, 2008
Canberra has performed an about-face on training for GPs, reversing a multi-million-dollar budget cut to a scheme for young doctors and instead adding more places...More
Bush doctors plan country cure - 20 September, 2008
Radical reforms with implication for health workers nationally are being proposed to fix the rural health crisis...More
Disease pose big danger to biosecurity - 20 September, 2008
Forget letters laced with anthrax spores and subway gas attacks: the most serious biosecurity threat to Australia comes from economically devastating diseases such as foot and mouth disease and Nipah virus, as well as compacency about diseases such as bird flu...More
GPs between ministers and a hard place - 20 September, 2008
In the new era of the brave Rudd Government, health care policy has become a little more complicated...More
Doctors told to reform or lose pay - 20 September, 2008
Canberra is considering co-opting doctors into its workplace health reforms by hitting them where it hurts - their pay packets...More
Contract out health to private sector: Medibank - 19 September, 2008
The nationsl biggest health fund, Medibank Private, has called on its government owner to end state health department monopolies over key health services and open them up to the private sector...More
Senate knocks back two bills - 17 September, 2008
The Senate has defeated key elements of the Rud Government's trade practices amendment package and blocked a bid to scrap a dental health scheme in its latest rebuttal of Labor's budget and election platform...More
Rudd forced to tone down Medicare surcharge reform - 16 September, 2008
Kevin Rudd will be forced to reduce proposed increases in the Medicare surcharge levy threshold to win Senate approval, potentially denying hundreds of thousands of Australians up to $ 1200 a year in tax relief...More
ETS threatens healthcare with $100m power bill - 16 September, 2008
Hospitals and nursing homes face a $100 million jump in powerbills under a national emissions trading scheme, threatening to compromise future levels of service unless they are included in government plans for compensation...More
Risks for heart disease go unchecked - 15 September, 2008
A group of the country's most-respected specialist doctors has called on the Federal Government to overhaul the way heart disease is assessed and treated...More
AMA wants patients views on audit plan - 13 September, 2008
The peak doctors group is considering surveying patients for their views of a Medicare Australia plan for a huge expansion of auditing activities, which could for the first time allow non-medically qualified officials to inspect material from patient's medical records...More
Prevention funding needs massive boost - 12 September, 2008
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Spending on prevention programs must be significantly lifted - to more than five times its current level - if the health system is to effectively meet the burden of chronic disease, academics have warned...More
Scheme to register patients with their GPs - 11 September, 2008
Patients could be encouraged to register with the general practice they use most often, under reform proposals by a national GP organisation...More
Training bottleneck for flood of doctors - 9 September, 2008
Deans of Australia's 18 medical schools have warned of a possible healthcare crisis if nothing is done to increase hospital training opportunities for the hundreds of extra students entering the system...More
State News
Bligh to demand federal funding boost for hospitals - 29 September, 2008
Queensland Premier Anna Blight has signalled that she wants to see a substantial increase in federal funding of hospitals as a prime outcome of this week's meeting of premiers and the federal Government...More
State flags push to bulk-billing for casualty care - 26 September, 2008
Queensland Health Minister, Stephen Robertson has called for many hospital services to be paid for with the swipe of a Medicare card...More
Minister John Hill's fury at patient death claims - 26 September, 2008
Claims that more people die from hospital overcrowding and admission logiams than in road accidents have escalated into a furious row between senior doctors and a state government...More
Specialist Frank Shann urges merger of childrens hospital units - 22 September, 2008
A new children's super hospital in Brisbane would save lives, foster research and improve training opportunities, says a respected specialist...More
State offers to give up health - 11 September, 2008
Queensland has pre-empted the Rudd Government's threat of a federal takeover of public hospitals by offering to make big chunks of its state-run system a commonwealth responsibility...More
Queensland to dump state-run nursing homes - 10 September, 2008
The State Government is planning to offload state-run nursing homes that look after some of Queensland's poorest and most vulnerable elderly...More
Tracey Wickham says medical research has priority over sports spending - 2 September, 2008
Governments should be spending more on medical research than on trying to conquer Britain at the next Olympics Games, says Tracey Wickham...More
International News
Consumer cut health spending as economic downturn takes toll - 22 September, 2008
As the credit crunch threatens to throw the economy into a deep slum, American are already cutting back on health care a sector once thought to be invulnerable to recession...More
A tale of 2 sickbeds: Health care in UK vs US - 22 September, 2008
A journalists treatment for same condition in two countries is world's apart... More
Across Mass., wait to see doctors grows - 22 September, 2008
Access to care, insurance law cited for delays...More
Alternative enter the mainstream - 16 September, 2008
Unconventional care wins some converts...More
Other Reports
Health expenditure 2006-2007
AIHW report now available AIHW website
Injury of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples due to transport, 2001-02 to 2005-06
AIHW report now available
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