In the media
More reforms to private health insurance needed to
combat COVID blow
AMA Private Health Insurance Report Card 2020: Private
health fund membership is continuing to decline and further reforms
will be needed to combat the likely financial impact from the
COVID-19 pandemic, AMA President, Dr Omar Khorshid, said (26
September 2020).
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'More than 80 per cent' of diagnostic errors
deemed preventable
A perspective piece in the Medical Journal of Australia
claims some form of diagnostic error occurs in up to one in seven
clinical encounters. They claim an estimated 140,000 cases of
diagnostic error occur in Australia each year. Of those cases,
21,000 are of serious harm, and result in 2000–4000 deaths
(22 September 2020).
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Calls for wider changes as healthcare worker COVID cases
drop
Advocates warn complacency could mean difficult decisions
are sidelined. Health authority data shows coronavirus infections
among healthcare workers accounted for 65 per cent of
Victoria's new cases at the end of August, rising as a
proportion even as community caseload fell (22 September 2020).
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Additional support for COVID-19 vaccine research
projects
The Australian Government is providing almost $6 million
for the research and development of 3 Australian COVID-19 vaccines
(21 September 2020).
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Bushfires cost billions in physical, mental
healthcare
The Black Summer bushfires that claimed hundreds of lives,
burnt homes to the ground and sparked an ecological disaster also
left Australia with a mammoth healthcare bill (22 September 2020).
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Trust science on vaping
Federal Government policymakers need to embrace science
over ideology when it comes to delivering access to smoke-free
alternatives to cigarettes, tobacco giant Philip Morris
International claims (22 September 2020).
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