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Is the public health system so good you don’t actually need private insurance?
26 November 2017 - Save your money and don’t bother with private health insurance. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Nov 2017
How to avoid giving the right answers to the wrong questions: the need for integrated assessments of complex health technologies
23 November 2017 - Health technologies are becoming increasingly complex and contemporary health technology assessment is only partly equipped to address ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Nov 2017
Reflections on the NICE decision to reject patient production losses
20 November 2017 - Patient production losses occur when individuals’ capacities to work, whether paid or unpaid, are impaired by illness, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Nov 2017
A check-up on Canada's health care system
25 November 2017 - In 2005, one of us (KMW) watched a close friend go in and out of hospital in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Nov 2017
Agenda for 22 November TC meeting
22 November 2017 - HAS has posted the agenda for the next scheduled TC meeting. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Nov 2017
Canada-wide program aims to get young cancer patients faster access to new therapies
23 November 2017 - If Terry Fox were diagnosed today, he would fall among the 20 per cent of young ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Nov 2017
Roche’s Erivedge no longer funded by the NHS
23 November 2017 - Roche’s Erivedge will indeed no longer be funded on the National Health Service as a treatment ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Nov 2017
Treating hepatitis C in New Zealand
23 November 2017 - General practice has a real opportunity to significantly lead the way to treat people in the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Nov 2017
New Zealand cancer patients renew call for more funded medicines, as report reveals 682 million dollar 'hole'
22 November 2017 - Cancer patients say they are sick of paying for their own survival after an independent report ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Nov 2017
'Are you scared of dying, dad?': the constant uncertainty of immunotherapy
22 November 2017 - An intense feeling of foreboding would seize Ian Cant every three months. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Nov 2017
Chemotherapy compounder ID mandatory within PBS claims from 1 December 2017
22 November 2017 - From 1 December 2017, approved suppliers (approved pharmacists, approved medical practitioners and approved public and private ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Nov 2017
New 'powerful' cancer website for doctors
22 November 2017 - Quality national data on cancer in Australia is now available to clinicians via the National Cancer Control ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Nov 2017
Is the NHS being taken for a ride on drug prices? We need to know
21 November 2017 - The competition watchdog is investigating, but we need a wider inquiry into pharmaceutical firms’ practices. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Nov 2017
Mum fights to get drug on PBS
21 November 2017 - A Bunbury mother of three has been recognised for her work in raising awareness of cystic ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Nov 2017
Out-of-pocket costs review needed more than ever
17 November 2017 - Latest figures showing consumers are paying out more than ever to health funds and doctors, make ...