Publications

This issue contains annual reports on gonococcal surveillance, and Creutztfeldt-Jakob disease, plus articles on pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 in north Queensland, Campylobacter in Victoria, who gives pertussis to infants, serogroup 6C pneumococcal disease and an outbreak of Salmonella Litchfield, as well as the regular quarterly data reports.

• Communicable diseases
• Diseases and conditions

The Department of Health and Ageing's Regulatory Plan for 2009-10

The State of Our Public Hospitals June 2010 report, the seventh in an annual series, is a detailed report card on public hospital performance in the 2008-09 financial year.

• Hospitals

This page contains information about the OATSIH Funding Agreement.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Health care systems

In the 2009-10 Budget, the Australian Government announced that it would provide $9.3 million over two years to develop and implement a new evidence-based framework for managing the MBS into the future – the MBS Quality Framework. The Quality Framework will establish new listing, pricing and review mechanisms that ensure that prospective and already listed items are effective and safe, likely to lead to improved health outcomes for patients and represent value for money. The Australian Government will consider the future of the program in the 2011-12 Budget.

• Medicare

The Australian Health Ministers’ Conference have endorsed five new national strategies for blood borne viruses (BBVs) and sexually transmissible infections (STIs).

• Blood
• HIV & AIDS
• Hepatitis C
• Sexual Health

Stage two of the Government’s National Health Reform Plan

Information booklet about cancer and what the government is doing about it.

• Cancer
• Chronic disease
• Health care systems
• Oncology

List of Publications on environmental health currently distributed by the Office of Health Protection of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

• Environmental health

The National Health Disaster Management Capability Audit 2008 is the third national audit designed to identify pressures in the health system during a major emergency and to act on these to improve responses into the future.

• Emergency management