The 'Week in Review' - 14 April
The health department is about to get new leadership, which means change, hopefully leading to less of a 'smash and grab' approach to policy development. The upcoming 2023-24 Budget may not include sp...
14 Apr 202312min
The 'Week in Review' - 6 April
All questions from the audience today. Questions about what the government might want from the HTA review, 'conditionality' versus the 'managed access program', and why the tinkering on patient input ...
6 Apr 202312min
The 'Week in Review' - 31 March
Any late-breaking news on the 1 April catch-up statutory price reductions? What is happening with the Albanese government's commitment to expanding Australia's patchwork of newborn screening programs?...
31 Mar 202316min
The 'Week in Review' - 24 March
Any surprises on the finalised terms of reference for the HTA review? The very clever politics of a 'supply only' arrangement and why the term 'commercial viability' confuses patients and masks the tr...
24 Mar 202313min
The 'Week in Review' - 17 March
A change in the membership of the federal government's HTA review reference committee. What does it say about the review and what does it mean? Still waiting for final outcomes ahead of the 1 April pr...
17 Mar 202312min
The 'Week in Review' - 10 March
Should we make this podcast 'confidential' by saying it's confidential? The Albanese government's unprecedented decision to release the rules for its first Budget. Could the industry be 'approached' a...
9 Mar 202312min
The 'Week in Review' - 3 March
Some companies are being paid a premium to keep their medicines on the PBS and well supplied while others are having their prices slashed to the point they are exiting the program. Is anyone else conf...
3 Mar 202315min
The 'Week in Review' - 24 February
We discuss the terrible treatment of the nurse-led Centre for Community-Driven Research and why everyone should be alarmed. We also ponder the almost $60 million the federal government has agreed to p...
24 Feb 202315min
