The 'Dispatched' Podcast
BioPharmaDispatch - discussing the issues impacting the Australian biopharmaceutical and life sciences sectors with Paul Cross and Felicity McNeill.
The 'Dispatched' Podcast
Latest Episodes
The 'Dispatched' Week in Review' - 4 September
This week's discussion starts with the perfect example of why pulling one lever can trigger another. The Senate's considering changes to expand the regulator's power, without any submissions from those most affected. Is it possible to have a co...
The 'Dispatched' Podcast - Series 5. Ep.30
Why pulling the same 'levers' on reform cannot work. Comparing one medicines access program and its humanitarian underpinnings to our institutional frameworks. The need for term limits on advisory committees, the enduring unfairness of medicine...
The 'Dispatched' Podcast - Series 5. Ep.29
The opportunities available in the pending negotiation of new industry agreements and the selective discrimination against some patients and patient groups by an outdated and unaccountable institution.
The 'Dispatched' Podcast - Series 5. Ep.28
For more than a decade, Public Summary Documents have been presented as evidence of system transparency, but in fact, they are an affront to it. What was the discussion about transparency that ended with an impenetrable 50-page technical docume...
The 'Dispatched' Podcast - Week in review
An important reminder about the impact of innovation and why it matters. What does it say about Australia and our life sciences policy frameworks that locally developed innovations are commercialised in other markets, but not here? Patients nee...