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National Pain Summit

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Organiser Lesley Brydon reveals how the long road to last week's National Pain Summit began.

The Right to Care that Works

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Jenni Beattie reporting back on the highlights from The Mental Health Services (TheMHS) 2010 Mental Health Summer Forum.

 

Clinical Trials can be for People and Country

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It is a mistake to assume that just because proposed reforms would benefit the pharmaceutical industry that it is neccessarily bad for health consumers. Properly regulated reforms to clinical trials standards will also benefit Australian patients.

Forgotten Consumers: The History of Medicine as a Marketplace

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The health system is yearning to be a freer market.

 

Does Australia's health system need to get worse before it can get better?

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In 2010, governments across the world will redouble their efforts to reform healthcare. 

Remedy Healthcare and Health Reform

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This speech was presented by John Meckiff at the GAP/ACHR Congress on Australia’s Health on Monday 30 November 2009.

Bedfellows or Combatants: the balance between innovating health technology and maximising the value of the health dollar

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This speech was presented by Deborah Waterhouse at the GAP/ACHR Congress on Australia’s Health on Monday 30 November 2009.

Where does all the money go?

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In her report Closing the Accountability Gap: The First Step towards Better Indigenous Health was released last week, Sara Hudson describes why Aborigines are missing out on benefits of additional funding for Indigenous Health.

Our Sick Hospitals

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Confused about how public hospital funding flows?  So is Colleen Chan.  But she is sure there must be a better way.

Butt Out Youth Smoking

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The Australasian Association of Convenience Stores advocates Federal legislation to impose a regulatory burden of personal responsibility on underage smokers in the same manner liquor laws share the responsibility for underage drinking amongst the distributor and consumer.