Physician assistants: help or harm?
Although there is a potential role for PAs within the Australian health care system, this must be accompanied by rigorous regulatory oversight and governance to monitor their impact.
Opinions
How will the response to the Disability Royal Commission’s recommendations impact people with disability?
With complex interplay between health and other aspects of life, it remains to be seen how the Disability Royal Commission’s work will impact the health of Australians with disability.
MediSecure breach: implications for health care services and patients
The MediSecure data breach highlights the health care sector’s susceptibility to such attacks, and it is imperative that the government and health care providers work together to better protect sensitive health data.
One flu over the dairy farm: bird and cow flu in the USA
As bird flu spreads to cow herds in the US, the threat of similar outbreaks in Australia must be considered a high priority for governments.
The art and craft of messages about lung health
Evidence-based communication approaches to raise awareness, promote preventive behaviours and attitudes toward respiratory wellbeing are needed to turn negative messages about lung disease into lung health for all.
New COVID vaccines may be coming to Australia. Here’s what to know about the JN.1 shots
COVID vaccines have unquestionably made a huge difference during this pandemic. For example, it’s estimated COVID shots have saved more than 1.4 million lives in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) European region alone since their introduction in December 2020.
Rethinking resource allocation in our approach to health care
When it comes to allocating finite health care resources, a focus on longevity and “glamorous” high-tech disease treatment has been distracting our attention away from the benefits of disease prevention.
Disability awareness improves health care
Doctors are in the perfect position to be forerunners when integrating disability awareness into health care. Access for all: disability awareness for health providers is the perfect platform to instigate this change.
The Australian Government’s first response to the Disability Royal Commission
After 4.5 years of investigation, the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability delivered their final report to the Australian Government in September 2023. Volume 6, section 4 outlined health care and treatment. On 31 July 2024, the Australian and joint governments released their first response to the DRC final report.
