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Health Under Labor: Reform or Nationalisation
... Health spending is rising inexorably, like a vice grip. One jaw is demand, driven by rapidly rising expectations and an ageing population. The other jaw is the supply effects from new health technologies. Cross-contamination occurs. New health technologies lift expectations. ... The two Howard government Intergenerational reports assess new health technologies as the larger drive of demand, but the contribution from the ageing of the population is accelerating. The demographic outlook is very familiar so I'll race through it. ...
The Deaf and Doctors: A Shepherd's Two Flocks
It remains my intention to achieve early diagnosis of deafness throughout Australia, accompanied by early intense habilitation, enabling most deaf children to attend a normal education stream, with full integration. Having established Australian treatment as the gold standard, I see no reason why this should not spread to the rest of the world, where even in the wealthiest countries the lot of the deaf child and the deaf adult leaves much to be desired. We are, perhaps understandably, an extraordinarily compliant profession, even naïve. ... It is heartening to see, especially in NSW in the past few weeks, that there are many eminent doctors prepared to speak out on behalf of their patients. May this continue and achieve the desired result -abiding independence of our profession and continuation as a profession, not as a workforce.
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National Registration Exposed - Urgent Meeting
An issue affecting every practising doctor and every patient in Australia. What are the claims? Where is the evidence? Who will benefit? Who will lose? Prominent speakers have been invited from the AMA, Council of Procedural Specialists, Medical Colleges, Specialty groups and Medical Defence Organisations.
NSW Medical Practice Amendment Act (2008)
The Australian Doctors' Fund is campaigning for changes to the legislation to restore the common law rights of NSW medical practitioners. Failures by hospital administrators and others, despite warnings and complaints by the profession should not result in scapegoating of hardworking ethical doctors.
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Notre Dame Sydney Medical School |
| ... medical profession will overwhelmingly welcome the university's commitment to extensive teaching in bio-medical science |
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Call For Independent Board To Run Royal North Shore Hospital |
| We must move from a model of State Government ownership and control to a new model, namely government funding with community ownership and control. ... This can be achieved quickly with the appointment of an Independent Board. ... Our senior doctors and nurses must also be invited to sit on this Independent Board in order to re-establish clinical leadership at the highest level. ... The Area Health Board system of management has not delivered a consistent standard of health care in line with the public's reasonable expectations |
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