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Happy birthday Medicare but are you still with it?
Health budget must counter COVID cracks
Open access to RATs makes most sense for health of all
Telehealth now permanent part of Medicare
Preventive policy charts path to healthier future
Greg Hunt pursued long-term vision for Australia’s healthcare
Health funds not meeting expectations
Young voices for healthy future
‘Living with COVID’ means living with caution
Health and medical groups respond to net zero announcement and call for more ambitious action to protect health
Urgent action needed to unmask cosmetic ‘surgery’
Youth health leaders call for action on “missing middle”
Time to develop Medicare for 21st Century
Fixing aged care for a civilised society
Call for Academy to empower consumer voice
COVID and plague of ideas that has sparked change
Mental health report needs action now
Win-win-win for health and consumers on climate
Young people launch initiative to shatter mental health stigma and make invisible visible
Aged care blueprint demands urgent action
UNSW tops nation in NHMRC Partnership Projects grants
Patient power blueprint released
Telehealth must be start of health ‘revolution’
Leading health groups call on government to address climate health impacts
Patient Safety Day: In everybody’s interest
Understanding Australia’s Virtual Care Needs
Best script is what matters to you
Budget must recognise value of better resourced health and social care
Health insurance needs deep diagnosis
CALD patients urged to keep in contact with health care
New Closing Gap Agreement a self-determined step forward
Dr Harry Nespolon’s passing a loss for all
Blot in Australia’s health report
Raising rate for good essential for our health and economy
Telehealth a crucial advance requiring more patient engagement and certainty
Consumer Commission to seek lessons from COVID-19 to drive a better health system
Winners of Innovation Challenge to help future proof Australia’s healthcare system announced
Pharmacy agreement updated but not upgraded
Pandemic offers guide to future continuity of care
NPS MedicineWise and CHF partnership reinforces primacy of consumers in healthcare
Patients feeling better with Telehealth
COVID-19 shows prevention can be difference between life and death
Staying connected – so doctor and consumer know best
COVIDSafe to help track down virus
Elective surgery restart vindicates anti-COVID strategy
Non-COVID patients also need care
Health funds must inform members of windfall gains
Consumers partner COVID clinical taskforce identifying trusted treatments