44+ min ago   (659+ words) We’re nearing the end of what has been one of the biggest hospital sell-offs in Australia’s history, and once the ink dries and the funds clear on the Healthscope deal, what then will we have to show for it? Rehashing…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (163+ words) Health Services Daily A new framework could be the answer in developing a consistent measure of quality care in general practice. Transport Accident Commission: Continence Aids, Wound Care and Nutritional products Goods and Services Tender: South West Sydney LHD: Transitional…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (233+ words) Health Services Daily The RACS wants minimum standards for private health insurance, an overhaul of Medicare rebates and greater scrutiny of public hospital capacity as part of a system-wide response to specialist access and affordability. Forecast opportunity: DoHDA: Print Disability…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1045+ words) Rural health leaders have discussed a proposal to restrict Medicare telehealth rebates by geography, as a Health Services Daily webinar heard renewed calls for a dedicated rural health minister and longer-term health budget cycles. A proposal at the Health Services…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (181+ words) Health Services Daily Medicare reforms are an ‘enormous hurdle’ for rural Australians, especially Indigenous people, and divert resources from healthcare provision unnecessarily. Forecast opportunity: NHMRC: Cancer Australia Research Initiative Targeted Call for Research: Liver Cancer Prevention 2026 Planned procurement: DoHDA: National…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (182+ words) Health Services Daily Delayed diagnosis, rising costs and poor health data are leaving millions of Australians with chronic pain overlooked. MRFF – Preventive and Public Health Research Initiative – 2026 Consumer-Led Research Grant Opportunity National expansion of the Mental Health in Primary Schools…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1763+ words) Assignment of Benefit was a poorly conceived idea that could never work in practice. So why can’t we now scrap it and move on? Here is the question about the Assignment of Benefit (AOB) saga that isn’t about “will the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (177+ words) Health Services Daily The World Health Organization estimates that close to half of dementia risk could be prevented or delayed. Contract notice: Department of Veterans Affairs: Rehabilitation Appliances Program Services; $1,250,000; APC Prosthetics Alexandria ATM: National Blood Authority; Update the Patient…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (229+ words) Health Services Daily Canberra Private Hospital will close due to financial pressures amid industry warnings that other closures are on the cards. Contract notice: Australian Centre for Disease Control: Operate and transition APAS and CARAlert to the Australian CDC; $975,989.04; Australian…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (564+ words) Australia has national strategies for cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia and mental health. But we have no national brain health strategy. That omission is becoming increasingly difficult to defend. The brain is our most valuable organ. It allows us to think,…...