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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 […]

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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 […]

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Tags: Scandal · Politics