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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 May 2009. News is archived monthly into the News Archives
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Its all about the budget and swine flu this month...
Aboriginal Medicare ignored - 26 May 2009
Health checks set up under Medicare to help doctors improve the care of indigenous Australians are woefully underused, to the extent that uptake will have to increase by more than 40 per cent in order to reach official targets...More
Nurses to be doctors at walk-in clinics - 26 May 2009
Walk-in clinics allowing patients to seek faster treatment from a nurse practitioner will be set up in public hospitals around Australia...More
New statistics close gap in life expectancy for indigenous - 26 May 2009
The difference in life expectancy between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians is around 10 years...More
Minister Nicola Roxon ridicules Opposition proposal on private hospitals - 24 May 2009
Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has slammed the coalitions suggestion there should be a crackdown on the number of private health fund holders using public hospitals...More
Sorting panic from pandemic - 23 May 2009
The closure of a Melbourne school, after the discovery that three brothers tested positive for swine flu, has brought home to Australia the infection threat facing the world, particularly North America...More
AMA seeks chief to regain clout - 23 May 2009
A three-way battle for control of the nations' peak doctor organisation is entering its final week, with the outcome likely to re-energise opponents of the federal Government's reform agenda...More
Budget a lost chance for reform - 23 May 2009
The 2009 budget provided the Rudd Government with its best chance to respond to the health threats posed by the global recession...More
Coalition to back health measures - 20 May 2009
The Coalition is poised to compromise on all three health savings measures from last year's budget that it blocked as Kevin Rudd turns up the threat of a double-dissolution election...More
Drug companies to face another dose of pricing pain - 19 May 2009
Drug companies will be put on notice that next year's budget could bring more pain...More
Blood supply to be targeted for federal cost savings - 19 May 2009
Canberra will target Australia's bloody supply in its latest efficiency drive...More
Pain for insurers but it won't kill them - 18 May 2009
Private health insurance is at at tipping point, fund membership at risk of reversing this year for the first time since 2006...More
Driven to drink by tax on alcopops - 14 May 2009
Drinkers have turned to beer and wine in the wake of Kevin Rudd's alcopops tax...More
Specialist fees hit in medical cutbacks - 13 May 2009
Canberra has cut almost $2.8billion in government subsidies from health funds, drug companies, pathology...More
Dropout rate 'negligible' - 13 May 2009
One in 10 Australian adults will be hit by Labor's reforms to private health insurance, but the Government maintains its stance that only a fraction...More
GPs offered $120k to go bush - 13 May 2009
Rural Australia will get a $134 million package of measures designed to boost its medical workforce...More
More funds for primary services to help bridge gap - 13 May 2009
The attempt to close the gap in health outcomes between Indigenous Australians and other Australians will receive a further $200million push from last night's budget...More
Seniors health card spared the chop - 13 May 2009
A clampdown on eligibility for the popular Commonwealth Seniors Health Card that delivers cheap medicine to thousands of retirees will not proceed...More
$3.2bn war chest for health centres - 13 May 2009
Canberra has made its first multi-billion dollar downpayment from its health infrastructure fund...More
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health labour force statistics and data quality assessment - AIHW report available now
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