International News
UK: England hikes educational requirements for nurses
21 December 2009: The minimum entry requirement for nurses in England will be raised to a four-year degree by 2013 in a bid to improve patient care and elevate the status of nurses in the United Kingdom.
US: Rise of the smart patient in the global health market
18 December 2009: Facing economic uncertainty that taxes ones sense of well-being, patients are increasingly looking to take control of their health and actively participate in making smart, safe, cost-effective healthcare decisions. At the same time, the landscape of healthcare is changing, enabling them to play a greater role in doing so.
US: Rapid-acting insulin analogues: No additional benefit for children with type 1 diabetes
18 December 2009: Due to a lack of suitable studies, it remains unclear whether children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes benefit more or less from long-term treatment with rapid-acting insulin analogues than with short-acting human insulin.
US: Minority elders continue to face health care, employment disparities
The premiere issue of an aging-focused newsletter deals with two pressing societal concerns — the economic downturn and health care reform — from the perspective of older minority adults.
US: New Commonwealth Fund survey of young adults finds wide majority support health reform
18 December 2009: An overwhelming majority—88 percent—of young adults across the political spectrum think it is important for Congress and the President to pass health reform legislation that would assure affordable health insurance for all and improve health care, according to a Commonwealth Fund survey released today.
US: Government grapples with EMR security, privacy
17 December 2009: Healthcare providers aren't stepping up to protect privacy of electronic medical records. Can the government provide adequate data security? While electronic medical records promise massive opportunities for health benefits, the privacy and security risks are equally enormous.
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Local News
WEEK COMMENCING 19 DECEMBER 2009
Sick system in need of a cure
23 December 2009: Many health leaders and reformers support the idea of a single health funding body to get rid of the duck-shoving dysfunction of the existing state-federal arrangements.
Radio star's booze battle too common
22 December 2009: Australia's battle with alcohol is never more apparent than in the face of radio and TV celebrity Ash Bradnam.
Students drawn to regional GP work: survey
21 December 2009: A new survey has found many Western Australian medical students are considering a career in general practice in regional areas.
Gay ex-Brethren given rapist drug
21 December 2009: A former member of the Exclusive Brethren says he was encouraged to seek medical treatment to suppress his sexuality and prescribed a drug used to treat sex offenders.
Hunter nursing home to stay in public hands
21 December 2009: A New South Wales Government backbencher has broken down while announcing that plans to privatise a Hunter Valley nursing home have been scrapped.
Reforming Health: What Australian healthcare might look like in 2015
20 December 2009: Let me paint two scenarios, both positive, based on the Australian Government pursuing substantial elements of the National Health & Hospital Reform Commission's NHRCC's)recommendations.
NT health worker on Oz gay power list
19 December 2009: Michael Costello's life work of raising awareness about AIDS has landed him on one of the country's most coveted power lists.
Health boss quits
18 December 2009: WA's Director General of Health Peter Flett has quit.
Roxon: New Narrabri District Health Service
18 December 2009
The Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, and the NSW Minister for Health, Carmel Tebbutt, today announced that construction of the new Narrabri District Health Service redevelopment would begin soon.
Roxon: Grafton Base Hospital upgrade
18 December 2009: The Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, and the NSW Minister for Health, Carmel Tebbutt, today announced the successful tenderer for the main building works for the Grafton Base Hospital Emergency Department and Surgical Services upgrade.
Calvary proposal the right way forward
18 December 2009: ACT Health Minister, Katy Gallagher MLA, said today that the Government had considered the feedback from the community and had decided to proceed with plans to buy Calvary Public Hospital.
Greens can’t support current Calvary/Hospice deal
18 December 2009: ACT Greens Health spokesperson Amanda Bresnan MLA has today indicated that the Greens will not support ACT Government’s current proposal regarding the Calvary Public Hospital and Clare Holland House.
More money needed for indigenous health
18 December 2009: Around $1.22 is spent on the health and aged care needs of every indigenous Australian for every dollar spent on non-indigenous people, a new report shows.
What will it take for pharmacy to realise its primary care potential?
18 December 2009: Yesterday’s Croakey post about a study examining whether pharmacists could play a greater role in community mental health care has brought a few responses. One of the study’s authors, psychiatrist Professor Alan Rosen, has replied to some of Croakey’s queries about the barriers to wider implementation of such initiatives.
Doctors, nurses most trusted professions
18 December 2009: A survey commissioned by the Australian Medical Association has found that doctors and nurses are rated as the country's most trusted professions respectively, with Western Australians also having a soft spot for teachers, engineers, accountants and tradespeople.
The looming age-quake
18 December 2009: A chilling trend that will transform our lives, businesses and society in general is the fact that we are all getting older. We now live in an ageing society.
The 'scab' who went to the top of the union movement
18 December 2009: Ged Kearney's first experience of work involved under-aged scab labour in a pub. Kearney, 46, who has been chosen to take over the role of president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions next year, had an unlikely introduction to the cause.
Greens to block sale of hospice
18 December 2009: The ACT Greens have declared they will not support the ACT Government's bid to buy Calvary Hospital if it includes the sale of Clare Holland House to the Little Company of Mary Health Care.
Federal health takeover risks more cost-shifting
18 December 2009: A Federal takeover of primary health care as recommended by Kevin Rudd's hand-picked reform commission would not end cost-shifting in the sector and might worsen it, according to a former mandarin.
Doctors, nurses argue over roles in ugly fight for health control
18 December 2009: Doctors would get the power to put midwives and nurses out of a job under a rule change before Federal Parliament, the nurses union warned yesterday.
