This appeared last week Psychiatrists warn mental health system is ‘under siege and stress’ Exclusive By Natasha Bita Education Editor 8:27PM April 19, 2024 Psychotic and suicidal patients are being turned away from short-staffed public hospitals, as the nation’s health ministers work to plug gaping gaps between medical treatment and NDIS support for the mentally ill. Frontline health and ..read more

This appeared last week as a bit of a reminder. Long Covid expert backs dedicated care clinics over seeing GPs ExclusiveBy Milanda Rout Deputy editor of The Weekend Australian's Travel + Luxury 8:37PM April 19, 2024 The nation’s leading expert in Long Covid care has urged the federal government to back dedicated treatment clinics and abandon plans to shift the burden of patient care to GPs ..read more

Here are the results of the poll. Are You Concerned That Our Mental Health Services Are Not Reliably Identifying Potentially Dangerous Sufferers And Getting Them Effective Care? Yes                                      & ..read more

 This appeared last week: NextDC feeds the ducks while they’re hungry NextDC has played the capital markets game superbly to be on the cusp of the top-50 stocks. To stay there, it has to deliver. Apr 11, 2024 – 11.26am Data centre owner NextDC has hit the big leagues – its first $1 billion-plus equity raising that should help catapult it into Australia’s top-50 listed companies ..read more

This appeared last week: Health ‘What we’re seeing is not telehealth’: alarm over doctors using AI and prescribing without seeing patients Consumers Health Forum calls on Australian government to address ‘significant safety concerns’ about prescribing without any conversation with patient Melissa Davey Medical editor Thu 11 Apr 2024 01.00 AEST Last modified on Thu 11 Apr 2024 08.22 AEST ..read more

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This appeared a few days ago: 7 steps to prepare your organisation for changes to Australia’s privacy legislation Opinion 02 Apr 2024 5 mins Michael Fagan, former chief transformation officer at Village Roadshow, examines the proposed changes to the Privacy Act and how CIOs in Australia can prepare for them. Australian privacy legislation is about to undergo a major overhaul with more than ..read more

This appeared last week 11 April 2024 Are we heading for a physician associate moment? By Holly Payne The AMA and GP colleges have warned that scope-of-practice reforms could result in the kind of implosion seen in the UK health system. The UK and Canada are valuable case studies for allied health scope of practice – but not for the reason that the scope of practice review commissioners ..read more

Here are the results of the poll. Do You Believe The Cost Of Comprehensive Private Health Insurance Has Become Essentially Unaffordable? Yes&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;& ..read more

2 related articles appeared last week: First we had this: Astronomers may have got dark energy all wrong. It’s great news for the universe By Dennis Overbye April 5, 2024 — 3.30pm New York: On Thursday, astronomers who are conducting what they describe as the biggest and most precise survey yet of the history of the universe announced that they might have discovered a major flaw in their ..read more