GPs anxious over Medicare watchdog
A REVOLT appears to be growing among GPs unhappy at the tactics of the Medicare watchdog that investigates allegations of overservicing
Health
Both sides called to stop the rot
FOURTEEN health and social groups have called on both parties to pledge to improve the “decaying” state of the dental system.
Reforms a suitable case for treatment
A STAPLE of modern mental health treatment is cognitive behavioural therapy.
Hopes dashed on suicide prevention
EACH year, about 100 people take their lives at the notorious Sydney suicide spot The Gap.
Labor to expand the front line
JULIA Gillard has unveiled a $277 million suicide-prevention package targeting high-risk groups.
‘Scattergun approach’ condemned
HEALTH experts have slammed Julia Gillard’s $277 million boost for mental health services.
Scheme for young people under pressure
THE Gillard government’s Headspace mental health program for youth is facing a funding crisis.
Labor moves on mental health policy
JULIA Gillard has moved to salvage her party’s mental health credentials, unveiling a plan to tackle suicide with a $277 million package.
Roxon says Dutton is hiding
Health Minister Nicola Roxon has challenged her Coalition shadow Peter Dutton to debate her “anywhere, anytime” on health.
Labor’s cure for hospitals
HOSPITAL emergency departments will get an extra 2000 nurses and 270 specialist doctors over the next decade if Labor is re-elected.
PM turns to Rudd nemesis on mental health
JULIA Gillard has sought the advice of mental health expert John Mendoza – the man shunned by Kevin Rudd.
Respite for nurses welcomed
EMERGENCY nurse Kelly Dee was one of many who gave the government’s cash injection an emphatic tick after its announcement yesterday.
Both sides stall on health reform
THE nation’s leading health economists and advocates fear the Labor reforms did not go far enough.
PM to boost emergency departments
HOSPITAL emergency departments will get an extra 2000 nurses and 270 specialist doctors over the next decade if Labor is re-elected.
GPs fearful of nurse subsidies
NEARLY half of GP surgeries say a $390 million federal government plan will leave them worse off.
Sites named for mental health centres
TEN new youth mental health centres would be established every year for the next three years under a re-elected Gillard government, says Labor.
Torres Strait crackdown
IF there is one section of the Australian border where the federal government is preventing illegal entry, it is the Torres Strait.
Fetal alcohol study set up
AUSTRALIA’s first study into the prevalence and impact of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder on indigenous children will be launched today.
NT exposed over child STIs
NINE Northern Territory children under the age of 10 contracted sexually transmitted infections in a six-month period last year, figures show.
Promises roll before poll called
ELECTION promises are already starting to flow, with Tony Abbott yesterday committing $700 million to building a Toowoomba bypass road.
State to challenge health networks
THE NSW government is planning to challenge the proposal to put health services in the hands of local networks.
MyHospitals website to open next month
THE MyHospitals website is scheduled to be up and running next month to compare the performances of public hospitals against national benchmarks.
Barnett warns against vexing voters
WEST Australian Premier Colin Barnett has warned the Gillard government will anger voters if it withholds health funding from the state.
Hospital system faces overload
HOSPITAL expenses are continuing to balloon.
Doctors query local control
SENIOR doctors have raised the alarm over another element of the federal government’s health reform program.
States failing on child check-ups
ABORIGINAL child health checks are occurring at only a fraction of that rate in other parts of Australia.
Depression, cancer’s forgotten side effect
ONE in five breast and prostate cancer patients are not getting psychological help following their cancer diagnosis.
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