Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2018
Health research and consumers: good thinking
14 May 2018 - One of Australia’s top medical researchers, Professor Ian Frazer AC, has called on Australians to consider what they want of health care in the future given the rapid development of ever more powerful and expensive treatments.
The “quiet revolution” in health care is making optimal health care for chronic diseases more expensive, raising questions of how we control health costs in the future, Professor Frazer says.
His comments come in the latest edition of the Consumers Health Forum journal, Health Voices (link is external) which is focusing on the consumer role in health and medical research and comes as last week’s Federal Budget includes welcome pledges to support consumers to have a role in helping to identify priorities for translation into research financed by the Medical Research Future Fund.
