The 'Week in Review' - 12 April
The health department is allowing employees to vote on a new name for its main building. We have some suggestions. Is our health system capable of learning from patient experience and the challenges m...
12 Apr 202437min
The 'Week in Review' - 5 April
This is a podcast without any mention of that HTA Review! Delegated decision-making is a significant feature of Australia's health system. How can advocacy and any push for change be effective without...
4 Apr 202438min
The 'Week in Review' - 22 March
Where do we start? Last year, the minister described Australia's HTA decision-making as clunky and agreed that it led to unnecessary deaths. How does that admission sit with his latest appointments? W...
21 Mar 202436min
The 'Week in Review' - 15 March
The Albanese Government has committed an additional $3 billion for the new Community Pharmacy Agreement. The details are yet to come, but the statement and confirmed financial commitment reflect a Cab...
14 Mar 202432min
The 'Week in Review' - 8 March
We discuss speculation surrounding the new Community Pharmacy Agreement and why successive governments support the framework approaching its 35th year. Community pharmacies are a good partner for the ...
6 Mar 202432min
The 'Week in Review' - 1 March
The industry must be congratulated for firming up its criticism of the HTA Review options paper, and it should start speaking publicly about its concerns. The history and how agreements with the feder...
1 Mar 202446min
The 'Week in Review' - 23 February
Nothing frustrates an advisory committee more than the word 'advisory'. Why any extended powers will be used to their full extent and not in the way many people would like.
23 Feb 202428min
The 'Dispatched Podcast' - 21 February
The consultation process for the HTA Review options paper upfront invalidates the input of companies, patients and clinicians with an unprecedented 'declaration' process that defines any relationship ...
20 Feb 202446min
