A Voice to Parliament would provide a more direct avenue of feedback to the Australian Government to help eliminate rheumatic heart disease, writes Dr Ben Jones.
Parts 1 and 2 of this three-part series were a call to action to the medical profession to unite and transform its approach to preventing and managing work-related burnout and mental injury in doctors.
Despite increasing consensus among many representative health bodies of the need for reshaping the health landscape, governments need to do more to support team-based models of care, including involving paramedics.
We must invest in Australia’s mosquito and flavivirus surveillance to support rapid detection during mosquito seasons, ideally before we see human cases.
This second opinion piece in the three-part series is a call for further action by a united medical profession to address the enormous scale of work-related burnout and mental injury in doctors who work in psychologically unsafe health care workplaces. There are solutions.
An Indigenous Voice to Parliament does not guarantee outcomes, but it does provide a stronger platform through which governments can work more effectively with Indigenous Australians at a regional and national level.
Many medical organisations and health services are working diligently to reduce the enormous scale of burnout and mental injury in doctors, but further action is required to address its impact on doctors’ families, writes Dr Leanne Rowe in part one of this three-part series.
The Strengthening Medicare Report lays the foundation to redesign mental health care around a generalist approach, fundamentally helping reverse Australians’ poor mental health outcomes.
Nurse practitioners could play an integral part in addressing the rural health workforce shortage, write Rachel Rossiter, Katie Prior and Rosemary Phillips.
