Anne Duggan
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252 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2014
last heard Sep 2018
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And I think that'll be a huge step forward.
Well, I I'm one of these people who believes in the glass is half full and in the tipping point.
I think we're getting to a tipping point.
I think people are realising that when there are outliers who don't represent uh and are not necessarily outliers because their streets are head and they are at the front of the forefront of evidence, but outliers because they're not um following best practice, I think we're more and more getting to a point where we'll we will see that happening.
It is getting the recommended s in place uh involving all the levels of policymakers, clinicians, patients, all levels of the healthcare system so that we can actually get more appropriate care for a s every Australian.
And that will make it safer healthcare and a higher quality health care and we will have the resources to be putting into areas where we're not currently focused, where we should be.
I'm patently aware that our indigenous population has a life expectancy ten years less than ours.
previous OECD reports which has shown, for example, that Australia had higher than OECD average hysterectomy rate
But this report's just come out this month and it
given us really more data on a whole lot of conditions.
Actually it's thirteen countries involved and it's about
Australia has about twelve of the conditions we didn't have data to put in to look at our rates of CT scans and MRI use.
Which would have been lovely as well.
True.
But information is always useful to start the conversation.
The data shows that we in quite a few cases we sit above the OECD average.
For example, if you take knee replacement
We sit up there with Canada and a few other countries with high rates, our rates are about two hundred per hundred thousand.
But if you compare it to Israel, that's about four times what occurs in Israel.
So there's sort of two things you see from this.
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