On December 8 Doctors Without Borders released a press release announcing the newest available AIDS drugs are remaining unavailable in Africa because the involved pharmaceutical companies are choosing not to sell them in the region, and generic versions of the drugs do not exist. These drugs were laid out in the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO) […]
Entries from December 2005
A Tracking Device on a Press Release
December 27th, 2005 · 1 Comment
Tags: Public Relations · Newsworthiness
Because the Legal System Never Fails
December 18th, 2005 · Comments Off
A Sydney Morning Herald article has detailed a new method of making important decisions that affect the community in the health sector – let the citizens make the choices:
The concept is simple. Select jurors at random from the electoral roll and present to them vital statistics for their area: the health of the population, the […]
Tags: The system
Sydney’s Medical Comancheros
December 18th, 2005 · Comments Off
Doctors hit the headlines last week as seventy prominent nurses and clinicians formed the Hospital Reform Group – a consortium aimed to push for sweeping changes in the public hospital system, and stoke public debate about NSW’s health services. The Sydney Morning Herald has labelled it a “hospital revolution”, describing romantic scenes of a dozen […]
Tags: Public Relations · The nurses · The doctors · Politics
The horse and carriage of Health and Politics
December 9th, 2005 · Comments Off
Health has veered into the realm of politics this week with the resignation of former Queensland Health Minister Gordon Nuttall from his post as Minister for Primary Industries and Fisheries. It follows a long line of incidents that have placed the Queensland health system in the spotlight of news and interrogation for months. Sean Parnell’s […]
