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Bulk‐billing rates and out‐of‐pocket costs for general practitioner services in Australia, 2022, by SA3 region: analysis of Medicare claims data
Out-of-pocket costs for non-bulk-billed services are particular high for people in remote and socio-economically disadvantaged areas of Australia
Karinna Saxby · Yuting Zhang
Setting the standard: no LGBTI+ health equity without data equity
Karinna Saxby · Mohamed A Hammoud
Making climate change a national health priority: Australia's first National Health and Climate Strategy
Australia’s first National Health and Climate Strategy was launched in 2023. In this article, we review the development and key features of the Strategy; discuss the expected challenges; and highlight how health care professionals can help.
Georgia Behrens · Madeleine Skellern · Alice McGushin · Paul Kelly · The Hon Ged Kearney
The Virtual Rural Generalist Service: a hybrid virtual model of care designed to improve health access and outcomes in rural and remote communities
The VRGS has an important role in providing continuous medical coverage to complement the local visiting medical officer workforce in rural and remote hospitals
Shannon Nott · Georgia Wingfield · Amelia Haigh · Georgina M Luscombe · Anna E Thompson · Emily Saurman · Tim Shaw · Amy Von Huben · Kirsten Howard · Andrew Wilson
Health service access and quality of care provided by the Western NSW Local Health District Virtual Rural Generalist Service: a retrospective analysis of linked administrative data
The VRGS can complement and enhance the delivery of medical care in rural and remote communities with limited medical services
Georgina M Luscombe · Andrew Wilson · Amanda J Ampt · Amy Von Huben · Kirsten Howard · Clare Coleman · Georgia Wingfield · Shannon Nott
Clinician experiences of a hybrid virtual medical service supporting rural and remote hospitals: a qualitative study
The Virtual Rural Generalist Service model effectively fills medical service gaps and makes rural medical and nursing positions more attractive and sustainable
Anna E Thompson · Emily Saurman · Shannon Nott · Andrew Wilson · Tim Shaw
Patient and carer experiences of hospital‐based hybrid virtual medical care: a qualitative study
Patients and carers who experience hospital-based virtual care perceive that it can provide good quality medical care and meet many of their needs
Anna E Thompson · Tim Shaw · Shannon Nott · Andrew Wilson · Emily Saurman
An economic evaluation of the Virtual Rural Generalist Service versus usual care in Western NSW Local Health District
Ongoing additional investment in data capture and nursing and technical staff is required to support the VRGS
Amy Von Huben · Anna E Thompson · Andrew Wilson · Georgina M Luscombe · Amelia Haigh · Kirsten Howard · Emily Saurman · Tim Shaw · Georgia Wingfield · Amanda J Ampt · Shannon Nott
Barriers, facilitators and next steps for sustaining and scaling virtual hospital services in Australia: a qualitative descriptive study
As virtual hospital services become more mainstream, gaps in evidence and practice must be addressed by future research and policy changes to maximise the benefits
Nicki Newton · Kavisha Shah · Miranda Shaw · Emma Charlston · Melissa T Baysari · Angus Ritchie · Chenyao Yu · Adam Johnston · Jagdev Singh · Meredith Makeham · Sarah Norris · Liliana Laranjo · Clara K Chow · Tim Shaw
A Northern Territory‐trained health workforce is required to meet its context‐specific disease burden and health care needs
One solution would be to locally educate, recruit, and retain a health workforce suitable for the unique needs of this region
Dominic Upton · Varunika Ruwanpura
Defining a core set of research and development priorities for virtual care in the post‐pandemic environment: a call to action
Demonstrating the value of virtual care models while also highlighting improvements in health outcomes will future-proof virtual care, enabling it to continue to address broader challenges of health care delivery
Kavisha Shah · Nicki Newton · Emma Charlston · Miranda Shaw · Jagdev Singh · Adam Johnston · Owen Hutchings · Chenyao Yu · Pearl Wang · Aaron Jones · Angus Ritchie · Rebecca Davis · Fiona Robinson · Jennifer A Alison · Melissa T Baysari · Meredith Makeham · Sarah Norris · Liliana Laranjo · Emma Nicholls · Clara K Chow · Tim Shaw
Out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrests in Victoria, 2003–2022: retrospective analysis of Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry data
New strategies are needed to further improve survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Emily Nehme · David Anderson · Ross Salathiel · Anthony Carlyon · Dion Stub · Peter A Cameron · Andrew Wilson · Sile Smith · John J McNeil · Ziad Nehme
Defining the gap, emphasising the deficit
Bridie Mulholland
The New South Wales Pharmacy Trial for herpes zoster: on the nose?
Christian P Pappas · Timothy R Holmes · Minas T Coroneo
The equitable challenges to quality use of modulators for cystic fibrosis in Australia
New pathways to address current inequities in Australian cystic fibrosis patients’ access to disease-modifying treatments, including in vitro cell models.
Laura K Fawcett · Shafagh A Waters · Adam Jaffe
The Future Healthy Countdown 2030 consensus statement: core policy actions and measures to achieve improvements in the health and wellbeing of children, young people and future generations
The Countdown aims to drive change and ultimately hold politicians and policy makers accountable for their choices to value, or not to value, children and young people in our society
Kate Lycett · Hannah Lane · Georgie Frykberg · Susan Maury · Carolyn Wallace · Luisa Taafua · Bernie Morris · Anne Hollonds · Pasi Sahlberg · Kevin Kapeke · Ngiare Brown · Jordan Cory · Peter D Sly · Craig A Olsson · Fiona J Stanley · Anna MH Price · Planning Saw · Khalid Muse · Peter S Azzopardi · Susan M Sawyer · Rebecca Glauert · Marketa Reeves · Roslyn Dundas · Sandro Demaio · Rosemary Calder · Sharon R Goldfeld
Young voices, healthy futures: the rationale for lowering the voting age to 16
Lowering the voting age to 16 years would empower young people and the political system to address inequities and build an inclusive society that promotes wellbeing
Kevin Kapeke · Planning Saw · Edward Krutsch · Claudia Burgner · Hannah Pitt · Ravin Desai · Khalid Muse · Jennifer Rowan · Charlize Nalupta · Judith Bessant · Susan M Sawyer · Sara Wardak
Wellbeing, participation and connection in the middle years of childhood
Children in middle childhood should be visible, valued and included across community life; their health and wellbeing now and into the future depends on it
Sharon Bessell · Tim Moore · Gerry Redmond
Guidelines for the design and implementation of youth participation initiatives to safeguard mental health and wellbeing
The youth participation guidelines aim to improve youth participation initiatives while safeguarding the mental health of participating young people
Kailin Guo · Danica Meas · Dominik Mautner · Fulin Yan · Imeelya Al‐Hadaya · Amarina Donohoe‐Bales · Lily Teesson · Stephanie R Partridge · Magenta B Simmons · Mariam Mandoh · Emma L Barrett · Maree R Teesson · Scarlett Smout · Marlee Bower
Co‐designing integrated child and family hubs for families experiencing adversity
Participatory approaches to health service design, involving genuine partnerships with children, young people and families, are feasible with sufficient investment in resource and workforce skills
Alicia Montgomery · Suzy Honniset · Teresa Hall · Santuri Rungan · Ally Drinkwater · Rebecca Bosward · Tammy Meyers Morris · Huei Ming Liu · Valsamma Eapen · John Eastwood · Raghu Lingam · Harriet Hiscock · Susan Woolfenden · Sharon R Goldfeld
Assessing the adequacy and sustainability of the Northern Territory health workforce with respect to burden of disease and injury, 2009–2021: an analysis of administrative data
Shortages in the NT health workforce must be eliminated to close health gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
Yuejen Zhao · Jo Wright · Renu Unnikrishnan · Ramakrishna Chondur · Danielle Green
Mental health‐related hospitalisations of adolescents and their contact with child protection services to age 11 years, South Australia: a whole‐of‐population descriptive study
The role of trauma associated with a history of child protection should be considered when adolescents are hospitalised with mental health conditions
Jessica Judd · Rhiannon M Pilkington · Catia Malvaso · Alexandra M Procter · Alicia Montgomerie · Jemma JA Anderson · Jon N Jureidini · Julie Petersen · John Lynch · Catherine R Chittleborough
Management of people after stroke in 383 Victorian general practices, 2014–2018: analysis of linked stroke registry and general practice data
The general practice management of people who have been hospitalised with stroke or TIA could be improved
Muideen T Olaiya · Joosup Kim · Christopher Pearce · Kiran Bam · Dominique A Cadilhac · Nadine E Andrew · Lauren M Sanders · Amanda G Thrift · Mark R Nelson · Seana Gall · Monique F Kilkenny
Medicare‐subsidised mental health service use during the first 15 years of life in New South Wales: a population cohort study
Additional work is needed to ensure equitable access to mental health services for all young people in Australia
Oliver J Watkeys · Kimberlie Dean · Kristin R Laurens · Vaughan J Carr · Melissa J Green
Long COVID in Victoria
Almost five years into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still major gaps in our knowledge as to the pathophysiology, treatment and prognosis of long COVID
David A Watters · Lance Emerson