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' Podcast - Special Episode
In this special episode, the focus is on the official plan to force a 'consensus' on health technology assessment reforms through a process conducted in secrecy under the guise of ethics approval. The problem with running this policy process li...
The 'Dispatched' Week in Review - 1 May
Tokenistic characterisations of patient engagement are no substitute for listening and empowering. The risk of government funding for organisations and how it can impact what they do, primarily because the government is just another vested inte...
The 'Dispatched' Week in Review - 24 April
Another significant speech for the health portfolio that highlights the reform challenge and the importance of choices. A review announced in 2021 without an official response, and the reform of a major program announced with enabling legislati...
The 'Dispatched' Week in Review' - 17 April
An unhinged reaction to the new pharmacy prescribing initiative in New South Wales, why Australia needs to be humble in any health system comparison with the US, and given that the Government sets and umpires the rules for reimbursing innovativ...
The 'Dispatched' Week in Review - 10 April
Australia’s health system is overly bureaucratic, opaque, and misaligned, with reforms like the HTA Review slowing access rather than improving it. Decision-making prioritises institutional processes over patients, who remain largely excluded d...