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Private health insurers under pressure to limit premium rises and be more transparent
31 October 2017 - Private health insurers are under pressure to limit their annual fee increases to the Consumer Price ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Oct 2017
Patient centred care is missing in action in Australia
30 October 2017 - The success of modern medicine is popularly seen in terms of hospitals and life-saving surgery. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Oct 2017
Experts slam 'utterly false' claims Australians given budget flu vaccine
30 October 2017 - Australia's Chief Medical Officer has stridently rejected claims a "budget" flu vaccine was partly responsible for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Oct 2017
Media statement - flu vaccines
30 October 2017 - Media statement from Australia's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Brendan Murphy regarding media claims about flu vaccines. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Oct 2017
Public summary documents - July 2017 PBAC meeting
27 October 2017 - The public summary documents (positive recommendations and subsequent decisions not to recommend) from the July 2017 PBAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Oct 2017
Better health care helps fiscal health
24 October 2017 - The Treasurer’s recognition of the importance to the economy of integrated, patient-centred health care injects fresh ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Oct 2017
Quentin Bryce in Canberra to support getting breast cancer drug listed on PBS
25 October 2017 - Former governor-general Dame Quentin Bryce has backed efforts to have a life-extending breast cancer drug that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Oct 2017
AMA submission - Government proposals to increase biosimilar prescribing
19 October 2017 - The Australian Medical Association encourages medical practitioners to offer generic medicine choices when it is safe and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Oct 2017
'We took a shot and it worked': Immunotherapy delivering results for cancer sufferers
16 October 2017 - Twenty-six-year-old Sydney engineering student Igor Mileusnic is a strapping picture of health. Two years ago he ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Oct 2017
Health insurance still expensive despite reforms: analysts
17 October 2017 - The federal government’s list of private health insurance reforms, lauded as the most significant in almost ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Oct 2017
Cancer groups want to stop classifying disease by the body part it grows in
16 October 2017 - They are the breakthrough medicines turning cancer from a death sentence into a chronic disease but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Oct 2017
Hunt puts best foot forward on health but we’ll need to monitor developments
13 October 2017 - Health Minister Greg Hunt today unveiled the most significant reforms to private health funds in recent ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Oct 2017
At last, good news on health insurance
13 October 2017 - The wide-ranging health insurance reforms announced today deliver a welcome response to consumer dissatisfaction with the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Oct 2017
Major reforms to make private health insurance simpler and more affordable
13 October 2017 - The Australian Government has announced a wide ranging package of reforms to make private health insurance simpler ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2017
Health care: the measure of a robust system
13 October 2017 - For all its faults, for all the times that things don’t go as planned, Australia’s health system ...