Health Workforce in the Media
Archive of a sample of health workforce-related items in the Australian media.
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'Under pressure', The Age, June 14, 2007
'Rural doctors need 'incentives' to stay', Susanna Dunkerley, February 19, 2008
'Give and take in nursing workforce', Adelaide Now, November 16, 2009
‘New University-driven Institute tackles Australian health workforce crisis’, The University of Melbourne News. The University of Melbourne News, Media Release, Tuesday 11 December 2007
'PM, states to talk health reform at COAG', The Age, December 6, 2009
'Stay-on-course budget likely', OPINION: Peter Brooks, The Australian, May 10, 2008
'We must stop stealing doctors from the poor', Peter Deutschmann, The Age, July 11, 2008
'Australia faces major nurse shortage', Karen Davis, October 22, 2008
'Bid to end nurse shortage takes hit', Siobhain Ryan, The Australian, December 15, 2008
'Kevin Rudd fails to plug medico gap', Siobhain Ryan, The Australian, August 26, 2009
'Internships edge foreign doctors out', Siobhain Ryan, The Australian, August 28, 2009
'Student wins for rural health initiative', The Age, November 1, 2009
'New rules threaten overseas doctors', Adam Cresswell, Health editor, The Australian, November 27, 2009
'Surgery fast-tracked', The Age, September 17, 2009
'Three-year wait to treat doctor, nurse shortages', Mark Metherell, The Age, December 8, 2009
'Health care should become the big battleline', Dennis Shanahan, The Australian, December 11, 2009
'GPs offered $120k to go bush', Adam Cresswell, Health editor, The Australian, May 13, 2009
'Staff shortage cripples system', Adam Cresswell, The Australian, January 24, 2009
'Nursing homes urge Canberra to compile league tables', Siobhain Ryan, The Australian, July 21, 2009
'Patience wears thin on health reforms', Matthew Franklin, Chief Political Correspondent, The Australian, December 08, 2009
'The clock is ticking on hospital reform agenda', The Australian, December 08, 2009
'We need hospital beds, not super clinics', Jeremy Sammut, The Australian, November 26, 2009
'Good start for one-stop health care', John Della Bosca, NSW Health Minister, August 01, 2009
'Cure for an ailing system', OPINION: David Penington, The Australian, October 24, 2009
'E-health shock for Roxon', Karen Dearne, The Australian, July 29, 2009
'Governments change direction on health e-records', Karen Dearne, The Australian, October 13, 2009
'NEHTA releases strategic plan', Karen Dearne, The Australian, Australian IT, October 02, 2009 12:00PM
'Clusters for integrated care', OPINION: Steve Wesselingh, The Australian, November 14, 2009
'$60m for e-health, education: Conroy', Karen Dearne, Australian IT, August 20, 2009
'Make e-health funding priority: AMA', Karen Dearne, Australian IT, September 16, 2009
'Shortages in Maternity Wards', The Age, 2/1/10
'Government Reveals Final Health Reform Offer', The Brisbane Times, 12/4/2010
'Training Fails to Prepare New Doctors', The Australian, 1st February 2010
'Australian Health Ministers Conference is holding a special workforce meeting', Hon Nicola Roxon, Minister for Health and Ageing,11 February 2010
'Rudd 'cure' for growing health bill', The Age, 14/2/10
'Private Health? It's enough to make you sick', The Age, 22/2/2010
'PM told to leave health to states', The Australian, 27/2/2010
'Kevin Rudd scales back health expectations' , George Megalogenis and Sid Maher, The Australian, 1/03/2010
'Doctor, Doctor Get Me the Nurse', The Age, 22/10/2010
'Health Care Doesn't Need to Be This Expensive', Ross Gittens, The Age, 5/10/2005
'Ailing health system needs Rudd's reforms,' David Pennington, The Age, March 31, 2010
'Treasurers Pore over Health Reform', The Australian, 26/3/2010
'Waiting Times for Elective Surgery to Be Cut', The Australian, 13/4/2010
'Health Debate Roxon, GST', The Australian, 19/4/2010
'Outpatients Wait for Four Years', The Age, 21/6/2010
'Health System Low Ranking', The Age, 2/7/2010