The 'Week in Review' - 4 August
This week in review is titled 'you can't make this up' as we focus on the lack of transparency and openness on two critical processes and the excuses to justify the secrecy. We also discuss interestin...
4 Aug 202330min
The 'Week in Review' - 28 July
We answer your questions today, with each of us producing our own list of five positive things about the PBS, but also the opportunities for reform.
28 Jul 202330min
The 'Week in Review' - 21 July
New Zealand's Pharmac looks forward to sharing its model with counterparts in Australia, the UK and Canada, the parliament is considering new laws that will force one group of families into a very dif...
21 Jul 202335min
The 'Week in Review' - 14 July
Why should everyone be concerned by the obsession with secrecy over a public health program, the wider lessons from the 'Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme', and the reality that a status quo a...
14 Jul 202344min
The 'Week in Review' - 7 July
The secret involvement of Pharmac in the international HTA collaboration, why it has no place in any process that could impact patients anywhere in the world, and why industry and patients need to act...
6 Jul 202332min
The 'Week in Review' - 30 June
Why are some people so sensitive to criticism of health technology assessment? What does it reveal about the decision-making culture, and why must it be confronted? Tomorrow will see a long-awaited ch...
30 Jun 202331min
The 'Week in Review' - 23 June
Health technology assessment and why systems have it so wrong when it comes to patients and decision-making. The latest on the reform of the Opiate Dependence Treatment Program and why the compulsory ...
23 Jun 202325min
The 'Week in Advance' - 16 June
A different approach this week with the discussion looking ahead to the end of June, with published outcomes expected on requests for relief from the stockholding commitment, detail on reform of the O...
16 Jun 202332min
