Health

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Mon, 13/02/2023 - 20:44
There’s a legal means of creating a pandemic that could kill millions. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th February 2023 If you wanted to kill as many people as possible, deniably and with no criminal consequences, what would you do? You’d do well to start with a bird flu. Bird flus are responsible […]
Created
Sat, 11/02/2023 - 04:51
The vehemence with which the medical profession opposes any moves on behalf of nurses and other health professionals to move legitimately into Primary Health Care in their own right is telling. A system in which some professional groups spend an inordinate amount of time propping up the work of another is not to be abandoned Continue reading »
Created
Fri, 10/02/2023 - 04:55
The Medicare Review contains welcome aspirations, but the instruments to achieve them are poorly delineated. An early statement in the Medicare Review report is challengeable. “Most Australians enjoy ready access to quality Primary Care services and with that good health outcomes”. That is certainly not true for the 33% of Australians who live in rural Continue reading »
Created
Thu, 09/02/2023 - 04:52
Hardly a month goes by without a new media report (and here) of alleged scandalous conduct of some doctors who call themselves ‘cosmetic surgeons’ but who lack recognised specialised surgical training. These reports have tended to focus on the harm done to patients and generally failed to explain to the public how and why the Continue reading »
Created
Thu, 09/02/2023 - 08:47
Right-wingers hammered in Socialist Health Association elections said to be aiming to disaffiliate SHA on pretext after organisation condemned Starmer and sidekick Streeting for appalling health policy The Labour right is angling to kick the Socialist Health Association (SHA) out of the party after the faction was crushed in the SHA’s internal elections – and […]