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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Equity and access: Palliative care drugs in Australia
The recent senate inquiry into “Availability of new innovative and specialist cancer drugs in Australia” brought timely attention to our Australia’s approach to access and funding of cancer medications. Perhaps unsurprisingly the matter of access to medications for palliative care was not seen as the chief focus of this review, but on closer attention perhaps it received more discussion than was realised.
By Photo taken byAney CC-BY-SA-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Is the health system designed to crush the creativity and spirit of health professionals?
Do you ever feel like health professional education and the health system are designed to take talented, intelligent, creative individuals and turn them into machines with no ability to innovate? Do you find yourself banging your head against a wall when even the smallest change for improvement requires hours of paperwork (that you probably submitted via fax), approval by numerous committees and months of waiting? Do you feel trapped in a health care silo? Do you feel ridiculous attending “multidisciplinary” meetings when the multiple disciplines are merely different specialties within your own profession?
If the answer to any of these questions is “Yes”, please keep reading. Continue reading
Funding opportunity for emerging researchers in ageing
Applications for the Australian Association of Gerontology’s R M Gibson Scientific Research Fund are now open. “The aim of the R M Gibson Scientific Research Fund is to encourage good research particularly from newer researchers in the fields of ageing across all disciplines. The R M Gibson Scientific Research Fund will distribute $15,000 amongst three cutting edge research projects in 2015.”
For more information see the AAG website.
Elsewhere in the Palliverse – Weekend Reads
Hope everyone is enjoying the live tweet-feed from the 11th Asia Pacific Hospice Conference in Taipei, Taiwan #APHC2015. Just between you and me, I think James has gone slightly crazy as he morphs into a rapid-fire, live-tweeting demon from Taiwanese folklore. For a more measured account of the first few days of the conference, check out this article from ehospice.
Other interesting things to help you while away your weekend:
- Weather forecasting and prognostication (Pallimed)
- Global atlas of palliative care at the end of life (WHO / WHPCA)
- Rita Charon on honouring the stories of illness (YouTube)
- Anything but the D word in this famous sketch from Monty Python (YouTube)
- The latest issue of the ANZSPM Newsletter
Happy May Day / International Workers’ Day!
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