The May 9 budget will include a $2.2 billion suite of measures to seek to ease pressures in primary health care and hospitals, as well as containing initiatives directed towards the crisis in the rental…
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Some 90% of Australians have a My Health Record. But even if it has health information stored on there, it might be less than informative and rarely referred to.
Medicare needs an overhaul to improve patients’ access to quality care. And we have a unique opportunity to shake up how health care is provided.
More Australians are delaying care or going to emergency departments because they can’t see a GP. Here are six reasons why.
Instead of asking how to fix the rural GP shortage, we should look at the bigger picture and ask how nurse practitioners could work to their full capacity.
The Strengthening Medicare Taskforce report is light on detail but lays out clear directions and includes big reforms. However, change won’t be easy.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Principal Research Fellow at the La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Health Technology Law, The University of Melbourne
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Betty Fyffe Chair of Rural Health Director of University of Newcastle Dept of Rural Health, University of Newcastle
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Research Fellow, La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University
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Professor of General Practice, Adelaide University
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Professor and Dean La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University
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Associate, Grattan Institute