Federal government moves to make telehealth permanent
The federal government has moved to make telehealth a permanent feature of Australian healthcare as part of a $300 million package for health services across the country. Announced in a joint statement by outgoing Health Minister Greg Hunt, Regional Health Minister Dr David Gillespie, and Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Mental Health and […]
COVID-19 continues to impact public hospital emergency departments
After a decline in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, presentations to public hospital emergency departments rebounded in 2020-21, according to new data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Information on Emergency department care in 2020–21 has been released with national, state and territory, local hospital network and hospital-specific data on […]