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News Archive - April 2006
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State/Territory News
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National News
Medibank sale ' slap in the face for staff' - April 27, 2006
The sale of Medibank Private is against the interests of its staff, health fund members and the broader community, a union said...More
Medibank sale 'will drive up premiums' - April 27, 2006
The sale of Medibank Private will likely drive up private health insurance premiums faster than they would have risen otherwise, Labor said...More
Professor joins research council - April 27, 2006
Warwick Anderson is the new chief executive officer of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)...More
Medibank to be sold - April 26, 2006
Government-owned health insurance provider Medibank Private will be sold, probably later this year...More
Costello warns PBS at peril - April 26, 2006
Australia's system of subsidised medicines could disappear in coming decades if the government does not keep trying to tackle rising health costs, Treasurer Peter Costello said today...More
Abbott's Proposals Will Do Nothing To Reduce The Cost Of Private Health Cover - April 18, 2006
Australian families will regard with scepticism and concern today’s reports that Health Minister Tony Abbott will be unveiling reforms to private health insurance in the weeks ahead...More
Policies hinder battle on obesity - April 18, 2006
The nation's war on obesity is being fought with outdated information that could result in ineffective and expensive policies...More
Abbott Ignores Obesity Epidemic: No Data And No Plan - April 18, 2006
It has been 10 long years since the last National Nutrition Survey was conducted in Australia by a Commonwealth Government...More
Too much health - April 18, 2006
Disuading the 'worried well' from swamping our health services...More
Government Support For Nurses In General Practices Should Be Extended To All Practices - April 12, 2006
ADGP welcomes the announcement today by the Minister for Health and Ageing to extend the subsidy to employ nurses in an additional 650 general practices in urban areas of workforce shortage...More
Additional Publicly Funded Uni Places in Health Welcome - April 11, 2006
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) welcomes the Prime Minister’s announcement on the weekend that the Government will increase the number of Federal Government-supported places in medicine by 400 and nursing by 1000, from 2007...More
Nurses to do more GP work: Abbott - April 11, 2006
Medicare will be widened to allow nurses to do more work traditionally done by GPs under plans being developed by Health Minister Tony Abbott to solve the nation's health workforce crisis...More
National hook-up needed if e-records are to work - April 11, 2006
Australians will have shared electronic health records within six to eight years, says Patricia Faulkner, chair of the National E-Health Transition Authority...More
Australian Health Ministers' Conference - April 10, 2006
Australian and New Zealand Health Ministers met in Wellington, New Zealand today to discuss a range of key health issues and a number of these are receiving attention in both Australia and new Zealand. Amongst the issues discussed were the important long term health issues including obesity and dementia...More
Building Australia's Health Workforce - April 10, 2006
The delivery of increased mental health services, announced this week by the Prime Minister, will be supported by a $250 million fund for an additional 400 new medical places and 1000 new nursing places...More
Kidney Health Costs in Australia Spiral Out of Control - April 7, 2006
The cost of chronic kidney disease in Australia is spiralling out of control according to a new research report 'Study of the Economic Impact of the Burden of Kidney and Urinary Tract Disease in Australia' by the George Institute of International Health commissioned by Kidney Health Australia...More
Abbott hints at Medibank Private sale - April 2, 2006
Health Minister Tony Abbott has hinted that the sale of Medibank Private was imminent, declaring competition, not government ownership, would lead to better services... More
State/Territory News
Queensland Hospitals Break Surgical Records - April 18, 2006
Queensland's two largest hospitals set records for the amount of surgery they performed last month, Health Minister Stephen Robertson said today...More
Report card on Indigenous Health: must do better - April 18, 2006
Indigenous health should be a national priority... More
Breaking the bottleneck - April 15, 2006
Experts warn a near 30 per cent increase in medical school places is not enough to fix Australia's doctor shortages... More
Queensland Boosts Nursing Workforce by 1064 Since June - April 12, 2006
Queensland employs 1,064 more nurses in the public health system than it did 10 months ago, Health Minister Stephen Robertson said today.
Workforce Solutions Need Careful Consideration - April 12, 2006
AMA Queensland has urged caution in embracing workforce solutions that may not have the necessary infrastructure to support them...More
Nursing crisis claims rejected - April 11, 2006
The Queensland Government has denied it's facing a looming nursing crisis, saying it has boosted nurse numbers to record levels... More
Now its the states' turn to chip in on mental health - April 10, 2006
Prime Minister John Howard's announcement of a $1.8 billion mental health package last week is hopefully the first in a series of giant steps towards a genuine process of national mental health reform...More
Students Not the Cause Of Queensland's Health Crisis - April 10, 2006
AMA Queensland warned further increases in medical student numbers were not the answer to Queensland’s health crisis...More
Millions wasted as waiting lists grow - April 4, 2006
Patients are waiting longer than ever for elective surgery, even though state governments have collectively wasted an additional $200 million a year on trying to fix the problem...More
International News
Panic 'could overwhelm' in pandemic - April 28, 2006
Telephone and Internet services could be overwhelmed and shut down in the early stages of a bird flu pandemic as people panic and try to work from home, according to a report released today...More
Despite Bay State Breakthrough, Money Still the Big Obstacle to Covering the Uninsured - April 10, 2006
Health policy analysts praised the political accomplishment of Massachusetts lawmakers Tuesday in enacting a plan that covers almost all of the state's half a million uninsured residents, but they said money is a big obstacle to replicating that model nationwide...More
Studies Find Disparities in Health Care Between U.S., Other Nations - April 10, 2006
Despite the perception that the U.S. health care system is the best in the world, studies released Tuesday conclude that Americans are not getting their money's worth...More
Medicare Advantage Rates to Rise Modestly in 2007 - April 10, 2006
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Monday that payment rates for Medicare managed care plans will rise only modestly in 2007. While payment rates are set to rise an average of 4 percent next year, those rates will be subject to a technical adjustment for the way physicians code patients for billing purposes...More
Transparency in Health Care: The time has come - April, 2006
One of the defining characteristics of U.S. health care markets is their lack of transparency...More
Other News
A big stick is not the only way to fight cannabis use - April 12, 2006
What is the real dope on cannabis? Over the past year, the prime minister and other federal ministers have been calling for a tougher criminal approach to cannabis...More
Informing government - April 7, 2006
Some time ago, the former director of the now defunct federal Futures Commission, Sue Oliver, lamented that... More
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