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Misleading VPR reforms will restrict equitable access to health care
From July this year, Australia's MBS telehealth system is going to change once again, and this comes after two years of constantly evolving rules and regulations regarding the delivery of healthcare services in this country. [ + ]
Opinion: Why housing should be a health issue this election
Successive federal and state governments have abandoned families to housing market forces — placing many in the situation of being unable to afford home ownership or living in housing stress. [ + ]
In Conversation with Anne Woollett
Melbourne-based Anne Woollett is leading an Australian-first pilot aimed at providing equitable access to clinical trials for patients in regional areas. [ + ]
New mental health unit opens at Blacktown Hospital
The Acute Adult Mental Health Inpatient Service, with a modern therapeutic space ensuring people can recover in a calm, healing environment, has officially opened at Blacktown Hospital. [ + ]
Health budget 2022 spends a little on favoured interest groups but misses a chance for real reform
The 2022 budget is an election-year budget. So stakeholders have been pushing their wheelbarrows up the hill to Parliament House to lobby for extra largesse to flow their way. [ + ]
Cybersecurity is everyone's responsibility
Health care continues to become increasingly digitised with an ever-expanding range of infrastructure options, technology platforms and devices being implemented and accessed both internally and externally by hospitals and healthcare organisations. [ + ]
Malnutrition: the silent killer in aged care
It's been one year since the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety handed down its report identifying 'food and nutrition' as an area for immediate attention in the ailing industry. [ + ]
Remote health monitoring — have we learnt our lessons?
If we ever needed proof that our healthcare systems have a sustainability problem, the pandemic provided it. [ + ]
Hospital pharmacists' role in COVID-19 treatments
The introduction of oral antiviral treatments calls on the expertise and services of hospital pharmacists as we progress towards the endemic stage of this pandemic. [ + ]
The road to net zero emissions in health care
Health care will face substantial challenges transitioning to a net zero future, but those challenges must be faced sooner rather than later. [ + ]
General practice and the unconscious gender bias
Unconscious gender bias remains a significant barrier to women's careers all over the world, and the healthcare sector is no exception. [ + ]
Improving organisational performance in health care
The dedication that doctors and hospitals pour into delivering optimal patient outcomes must be matched by the same intensity of focus on the sector and how it operates. [ + ]
Mild COVID-19 linked to changes in brain structure: study
New research reveals the damaging effects of COVID-19 and improves our understanding of how the disease spreads through the central nervous system. [ + ]
Unaffordable innovation? The rising cost of patient care
The past two years have seen Australia's medical industry undergo significant changes, with e-health and telehealth quickly becoming the norm. [ + ]
Aged care and the great reset
The aged-care sector has begun to emerge from the challenges encountered over the summer from the COVID-19 Omicron wave. [ + ]
