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The following health and related news items are sourced from National, State and online news, current affairs and opinion sites. News is archived monthly into the News Archives
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National News
Long, bumpy road to nirvana - 29 November, 2008
Public hospitals humming with patients who are promptly and efficiently treated by satasfied staff, replacing the chaos of overcrowding and impossibly stretched resources...More
Sweet and deadly for the waistline - 29 November, 2008
If the definition of insanity is to continue doing the same thing and expect a different outcome, then as a society we are not only getting fatter but crazier...More
COAG: States dig in heels on health funding - 27 November 2008
Kevin Rudd has claimed the extra $11bn to be offered to the premiers on Saturday could generate up to 75,000 jobs...More
Building steps to indigenous health - 26 November, 2008
Closing the indigenous health gap not only requires more doctors, nurses and infrastructure...More
'Never say die' trend persists as life expectancies rise - 26 November, 2008
The life expectancy of Australian men and women continues to improvem as medical advances outdo our unhealthy lifestyles...More
Don't hand mental services to states - 22 November, 2008
In 1997, the ABS conducted our first-ever national household survey of mental health...More
Roxon blocks state raids on health infrastructure fund - 19 November, 2008
States and territories will be shut out of Canberra's mulit-billion-dollar health infrastructure fund if they try to raid it to fill holes in their health budgets...More
Dentists defend Medicare plan - 15 November 2008
Oral health advocates say new figures support their campaign to retain a threatened dental scheme...More
Medicare bulk-billing rate falls as GP numbers dwindle - 15 November, 2008
The bulk-billing rate for doctors' visits has taken its sharpest quarterly fall for five years, as the medical workforce dwindles...More
Baby boomers private health fears - 14 November, 2008
About a third of baby boomers who have private health insurance are prepared to give it up because of growing financial pressures and the sharp drop in thier superannuation earnings, a survey suggests...More
AMA wants $3bn to fix hospitals - 13 November, 2008
Public hospitals are in an unacceptably poor state and require an urgent infusion...More
Pressure from funds for compulsory private health insurance - 11 November, 2008
Health funds want private health insurance to be compulsory and the industry to replace government in providing universal healthcare...More
Plan for agency to prevent illness - 7 November, 2008
A National health promotion agency could be set upm funded by means such as a new health "future fund"...More
200 more places for GP intake - 6 November, 2008
Nearly 200 more graduate doctors will be allowed to join the national GP training scheme...More
Data must back accountability decisions - 1 November, 2008
The current and previous federal governments, through their health ministers, flagged that they wanted much greater public accountability of hospitals in terms of efficiency and the safety and quality of their services...More
Job agents trip over red tape - 1 November, 2008
Skill shortages in health are no secretm but red tape is stifling overseas recruitment...More
State News
$7.7bn will still leave hospitals short of beds - 29 November, 2008
Doctors have warned that Canberra's $7.7bn health funding offer to the states will still leave public hospitals short of beds and operating at unsafe occupancy rates...More
Hospital inquiry urges closure of six emergency units - 28 November, 2008
A 10 month inquiry into the NSW hospital system has found the system to be in crisis and has recommended sweeping changes...More
States to bet extra $7.7bn for hospitals - 28 November, 2008
Kevin Rudd will pay the states an extra $7.75 billion to run their overcrowded hospitals...More
Health savings make commonwealth pay more - 12 November, 2008
Hospitals in NSW will generate an extra $90 million a year by 2010 through a combination of scrapping hourly-rate payments...More
Hospitals hurting, say doctors - 1 November, 2008
Clinicians fear the financial crisis may distract governments from the need to fix public hospitals...More
Doctors may lose lucrative practice - 3 November 2008
Doctors at the Alfred are set to lose lucrative private billing rights in the wake of a scandal involving the Melbourne hospitals disgraced former trauma chief...More
International News
South Africa's fata AIDS policy exposed - 27 November, 2008
A study by US researchers has claimed that the South African government would have prevented the premature deaths of 365,000 people if it had provided anti-retroviral drugs to AIDS patients...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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