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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
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
Roxon backs contracts to cut surgery lists - 30 October, 2008
Health Minister Nicola Roxon says it doesn't matter whether hospital services are provided by the public or private sectors, as long as the patients benefit...More
State News
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
States to taken on mental health - 28 October, 2008
The states and territories are expected to gain full control of community mental health services...More
International News
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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