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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 2008. News is archived monthly into the News Archives
National News
State News
International News
Other News & Reports
National News
Doctors' alliance seeks trebling of GP training places by 2015 - 17 October, 2008
An alliance of doctors' groups has demanded a near-trebling of GP training places by 2015, warning that many more patients will be forced...More
Change in Medicare levy surcharge to benefity 250,000 - 17 October, 2008
Labor has secured tax breaks for 250,000 people and $380 million for its besieged budget after 11th-hour negotiations convinced the Senate to pass a compromise Medicare levy surcharge bill yesterday...More
Curing a sick health system - 14 October, 2008
Andrew Hobson isn't bad at maths, a factor contributing to his selection as a first-year medical student at the University of Queensland...More
Mental care plan blows out by $1.4bn - 13 October, 2008
Soaring demand for a federal mental health program has caused its cost to rocket to more than three times the original budget amount of $143.1 million...More
Roxon renews gap crackdown- 11 October, 2008
Progress has slowed in tackling unexpected out-of-pocket medical costs...More
Obesity could take two years off a child's life - 11 October, 2008
Children face a two-year drop in their life expectancy if current levels of overweight and obesity are not reduced, and healthy habits continue to be ignored...More
Lean times of recession help make us healthier - 11 October, 2008
The Western world is braced for a global recession to wash away all vestiges of the good life people have become accustomed to, but downturns don't bring unmitigated woe...More
Reforms can deliver a better system - 11 October, 2008
As soon after taking office in November 2007, the Rudd Government announced the establishment of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission, chaird by Doctor Christine Bennett...More
Health funds warned on fee rises - 9 October, 2008
Health funds could be individually held to account for next year's round of premium hikes as the Rudd Government tries to contain rises of up to 10per cent...More
Global warming set to shake our eating habits - 6 October, 2008
Climate change is likely to deprive us of the pleasures of eating beef and lamb...More
$1.7bn to level health's playing field - 6 October, 2008
Kevin Rull will need to pump an extra $1.7bn into the health system if he is to make up for the federal funding failings that have denied people in some parts of the country up to $500 a year in healthcare benefits...More
Drive for more Indigenous doctors - 4 October, 2008
Latisha Patterson counts herself lucky that when she enrolled as a first year medical student at the University of Newcastle in 1995...More
'Too hard' food review off to COAG - 4 October, 2008
Some 20 different agencies have handed over the task of cutting red tape in food regulation to their state premiers and prime minister...More
Experts call for health reforms - 4 October, 2008
Patients could be encouraged, or even required to register with a particular family doctor under radical reform proposals that also urge weaning GPs off Medicare rebates and introducing controversial British-style payment systems...More
Privacy obsesses lawyers, not patients - 4 October, 2008
Comment: Just how worride are Australians about the privacy of their health records?..More
Adult obesity swells by a third - 3 October, 2008
About six in 10 patients turning up at GP surgeries are overweight or obese and quarter drink to risky level...More
State News
NSW hospital statistics on patients 'worth nothing' - 11 October, 2008
The NSW Government has an explanation for why some public hospitals are failing to see most of their urgent patients on time - it does not believe its own health figures...More
'System in crisis' as hospitals fail most targets - 3 October, 2008
Hospitals in Victoria are still failing to meet five out of nine performance targets, prompting the Australian Medical Association to declare the system in crisis...More
International News
South Africa Health Minister Barbara Hogan admits reality of AIDS - 15 October, 2008
South Africa's new Health Minister has broken with a decade of discredited policies on AIDS... More
Health takes a hit as economy creates more stress - 8 October, 2008
Economic stress is taking its toll on the USA's emotional and physical health new survey data shows...More
Economy forcing many seniors to cut on health care - 5 October, 2008
Senior citizens with mounting medical bills are finding they don't have the necessary resources to keep up...More
Other Reports
National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission
Commissioned reports now available via the NHHRC website
OECD Health Policy Studies: The Looming Crisis in the Health Workforce: How can OECD countries respond?
Report now available via the SourceOECD website
Health expenditure 2006-2007
AIHW report now available AIHW website
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