Paul has offered three suggestions on what I could talk about tonight. First, an article in the Financial Times by Martin Wolf, about increased longevity, then a note on low productivity in hospitals and universities, and a third article about private health insurance and private hospitals on the Pearls and Irritations website by John Menadue. To these I could add another recent article on Pearls and Irritations by Steve Leeder, titled Keir Starmer may fix the NHS, but wholesale
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5 new members were welcomed to HRG. Michael then provided an overview of the scope of his new Centre for Future Health Systems, based jointly at UNSW and The University of Oxford. The Centre has been funded by a philanthropic gift from the Ian Potter Foundation and will work at local, state, national and international levels to support research, policy development and advocacy across eight themes: Health systems reform to improve equity of access to health care services and equity
Source: https://www.ft.com/content/a8f33209-3507-4364-98be-61b3bb464fbb#comments-anchor PDF: Increased longevity will bring profound social change Opinion Ageing Populations Increased longevity will bring profound social change People will have to work longer and pension systems will need to be transformed Martin Wolf May 13 2024 In the UK in 1965, the most common age of death was in the first year of life. Today the most common age to die is 87 years old. This startling statistic comes from a remarkable new book, The Longevity Imperative,
Source: https://twitter.com/ShaunCGath/status/1765898750772551688 Shaun Gath used to regulate private health insurance before it was taken over by APRA.
A/Prof Jeremy Lim | CEO AMLI My nursing friends know I am a big supporter of nurses stepping up to leadership roles in the health system. Hence it was a delight to work with Dr Brigitte Woo 胡芳溶 , of National University of Singapore Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine on this article for The Straits Times on nursing recruitment, onboarding and retention. Gist- 1️⃣ We applaud the recent Singapore financial measures
Meeting Overview Three new members were welcomed to the group. While the main purpose of the meeting was to set the agenda and approach for the year ahead, HRG’s origins, purpose and impact were also discussed throughout the evening. It was suggested that as an unincorporated, unaffiliated group of mostly senior clinicians, academics and community members operating under the Chatham House Rule, HRG occupied a unique position in being able to address healthcare policy issues from perspectives not generally represented
Contemporary, industrial healthcare systems have understandably been designed to be sharply focused on the treatment of human illness, with the domination of incentives focused on activity (e.g. fee-for-service medicine; activity-based funding) have been suggested as a major contributor to this orientation. While this has encouraged a form of innovation that has driven the unprecedented expansion of population lifespan, more recent decades have failed to deliver a concomitant dividend in healthspan. In Australia, the AIHW 2023 Burden of Disease Report
The New York Times (International Edition), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 Why the world needs its own immune system We should seize the moment right now to build a new set of protections against future public health crises. Opinion | We Need a Global Immune System to Stop Future Public Health Crises – The New York Times (nytimes.com) The thing that has surprised me most since I began my job leading foreign assistance for global health at the U.S. Agency for
Download the Word Document – HRG Statement on Oral Health- 2023-09-16 Draft Press/Public statement Poor oral health in Australia is a costly chronic problem that is getting worse. Current strategies do not address the problem. The Sydney-based “Health Reform Group” (HRG), drawing members from across the health professions and consumers, meets regularly to champion needed healthcare reform in Australia. The HRG, stimulated by recent distressing data, again advocates for timely access to evidence-based dental care for all Australians.