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'- 15 May
There are enough measures and signals in this week's Budget to suggest medicines, vaccines and other technologies were discussed extensively in the process leading up to Tuesday's announcement. It might also help explain Health Minister Mark Bu...
The 'Dispatched' Week in Review Podcast - 8 May 2026
In this week's episode, the focus is on the latest example of no progress on reform, the mindset and intransigence it reveals, the repeated pattern, and the early evidence that it would always end this way. Can it be an opportunity? Next week's...
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...