Episodios

  • The 'Dispatched' Podcast - 6 June
    Jun 6 2025

    Adding disability to health in an already full ministerial bandwidth and funding challenges. Trade policy and the PBS, and a presentation on the human consequences of our decision-making. Can a targeted diagnostic screening and the strangest patient case study?

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    0:00 - 9.45: Adding disability to health in an already full ministerial bandwidth and funding challenges

    9.45 - 17:55: Trade policy, the PBS, and managing the risks and opportunities

    17:55 - 17:55: About a presentation on the human consequences of our decision-making

    37:50 - 44:52: Is it a public health measure or revenue raising?

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    45 m
  • The 'Dispatched' Podcast - 16 May 2025
    May 16 2025

    A busy two weeks with an election and the addition of disability and the NDIS to the health portfolio. What does it mean? The credulous reflex response to comparisons between the US and Australian health systems. Why is denying access and out-of-pocket costs in Australia better than what happens in the US?

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    1 h
  • The Dispatched 'Week in Review' Podcast - 2 May
    May 2 2025

    What is the balance between building national sovereignty in health and protecting patient safety and community confidence in new technologies? Do we need to be careful? An election brings back memories of 'future' funds past.

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    40 m
  • The Dispatched Podcast 'Week/s in Review' - 24 April
    Apr 23 2025

    The health election debate mainly concerned bulk billing. New bureaucracies are rarely the solution to anything, and the challenge of faster funded access to new health technologies, particularly when advisory committees with power appear opposed. The complexity of weight-loss therapies presents opportunities.

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    52 m
  • The 'Dispatched' Podcast - 'Week in Review' 11 April
    Apr 11 2025

    Australia's election is two weeks in, and we're having trouble engaging. How positional power and 'expertism' can be confused and the value of a transparent and open forum.

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    50 m
  • The 'Dispatched' Podcast - 4 April
    Apr 4 2025

    The industry's 'Faustian bargain' on the 'sanctity' of the PBS, the challenge so many have in being clear about the problem, and why Pathology Australia provides an important lesson. Another wrong political message on newborns, why dentists might be worried, positive news on a critical medicines reform, and kudos to a pharmacy chain for promoting flu vaccines.

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    52 m
  • The 'Week in Review' Podcast - 28 March
    Mar 28 2025

    US criticism of the PBS is like catnip for some people, they can't resist it, even if it's the same criticism articulated by multiple Australian stakeholders and the health minister. The strange secrecy over the government's review of arrangements for blood supply products and the terrible treatment of a female academic leader.

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    34 m
  • The 'Week in Review' Podcast - 21 March
    Mar 20 2025

    A total victory for pharmacy with the prime minister's appearance at their showcase annual event. We discuss the confected outrage over US interest in the PBS, which is hardly new, and why the industry needs to lead this debate because its reputation and change agenda are being trashed. Much of what PhRMA is arguing reflects what Health Minister Mark Butler said on Sunday when he announced new women's health listings.

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    30 m
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