DRS

Doctors Reform Society

The Real “Fairer Medicare”

Conference Program 18-19 October

Venue : Kathleen Syme Education Centre

Cnr Cardigan and Farraday Streets

Carlton Melbourne

Saturday 18 October  ..................Program

* These items have PowerPoint slideshows

• 9.15 – 9.20 am   Welcome

•                                     Dr Tim Woodruff,

•                                     President DRS

• 9.20 – 10.20am   Saving the Pharmaceutical Benefit

•                             Fighting the Marketing Dollar

                                        Dr Ken Harvey, Latrobe University, Therapeutic Guidelines Board.

• 10.45 –12.45am  The Real Medicare:
•                                 How to help it survive

• 10.45 –11.15am Private Health Insurance
• Leonie Segal, Centre for Health Programme Evaluation, University of Melbourne
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• 11.15 –12.45pm * Hospital Funding (PowerPoint Presentation)
•                             John Deeble, ANU

• 1.30-3.30pm   Primary Healthcare  Workshop

•                           Vision and Reality

•                            What can we get politicians to do

•   1.30 –1.50pm     * The New Zealand experience (PowerPoint Presentation)

• Peter Glensor, Health Care Aotearoa New Zealand.

• (Advisor to NZ Govt on Primary Health)

•               1.50 – 2.10pm     Primary Health Care in Australia:

•                                              “The good and the bad”.

•                                             John Furler, University of Melbourne

                                                           Funding Models for Primary Health Care

                                                 Rod Wilson, CEO Inner Eastern Community  Health Melbourne

                        2.10-3.15pm      What can we tell the politicians

• 3.30 – 4.00pm Workshop Conclusions
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• 4.00 – 5.00pm Gender in Medicine
• Ann-Maree Nobelius,
•  Research Fellow, Monash University

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