The Australian Government has made a shaky start to implementing its pre-election commitment to undertaking "one of the most significant reforms of Australia's health and hospital system since Federation".
The composition of its new National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission, charged with drawing up a blueprint for the future health system, has raised widespread concerns.
The Australian Nursing Federation joined consumer groups, public health advocates, rural doctors, and policy analysts in sounding the alarm over the lack of nursing, consumer, Indigenous and allied health representation.
Chaired by a senior executive of a private health fund, the Commission ...