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Debate: Are doctors or insurers to blame for health insurance price hikes?
23 August 2017 - The peak body for the private health insurance industry, Private Healthcare Australia (PHA), has been warning ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Aug 2017
Health Minister hears consumer case for health reform
23 August 2017 - Healthcare consumers have today put the case to Health Minister, Greg Hunt, for his National Health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Aug 2017
Agenda for the November 2017 PBAC meeting
23 August 2017 - The agenda for the November 2017 PBAC meeting is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Aug 2017
NICE rejects thyroid cancer drugs
23 August 2017 - It is looking likely that patients in England will loose NHS access to Ipsen’s Cometriq and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Aug 2017
Pharmaxis announces positive recommendation for broader Bronchitol access in Australia
18 August 2017 - Pharmaceutical research company Pharmaxis today announced it has received a positive recommendation from the PBAC in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2017
Turnbull struggles to deal with funding the nation’s soaring health care demands
21 August 2017 - The Turnbull government will almost reach its cap on hospital funding in the first year of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2017
Pfizer objects to NICE methods in leukaemia drug rejection
21 August 2017 - NICE has caused controversy by rejecting Pfizer’s Besponsa – a blood cancer drug that can give ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2017
Record number of Australians receiving Medicare benefits
21 August 2017 - More Australian patients are seeing their doctor without having to reach for their wallet with GP bulk ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2017
Private health insurance not 'junk': NIB boss rejects doctors' 'paternalistic' proposal
21 August 2017 - Private health insurer NIB has rejected accusations that some policies are "junk" insurance that fail to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2017
Private health insurance 'junk' policies ripping Australians off, AMA says
21 August 2017 - Australian doctors have declared private medicine is "under siege", and are pushing the Federal Government to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2017
Cystic fibrosis patients, families angry over latest refusal to subsidise drug Orkambi
19 August 2017 - Cystic fibrosis patients have suffered another blow in their fight for access to a potentially life-changing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2017
NICE no takes gloss off Besponsa’s FDA nod
18 August 2017 - Hours after Pfizer announced the news of regulatory approval for its drug Besponsa (inotuzumab ozogamicin) in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2017
Free visits to the doctor reach a record high, new Medicare statistics show
20 August 2017 - The number of Australian patients are seeing their doctor without paying a cent for it after ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2017
HIV preventative drug subsidy negotiations have stalled
18 August 2017 - Requests for a Truvada Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme listing have been deferred. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2017
Treatment for cystic fibrosis sufferers still out of reach
19 August 2017 - Health Minister Greg Hunt has been called on to step up and do more for 1000 ...