by NAPP Support | Apr 4, 2000 | Media Release
Letter to the Editor – The Australian. Media Release 4 April 2000 Dear Sir/Madam The reporting of the setback in negotiations between Dr Wooldridge and General practitioner groups to curb supposedly rising costs in medicine (W/E Aust April 3-4) really misses the...
by NAPP Support | Feb 5, 2000 | Media Release
Psychiatrists Condemn MACC Project Media Release – 5 February 2000 A private health fund sponsored project known as MACC (Measures of Appropriate Clinical Care) is the pathway to health care rationing President of the National Association of Practising...
by NAPP Support | Oct 18, 1999 | Media Release
Psychiatrists want to know what international health care agreement will do for sufferers of mental illness – Media Release – 18 October 1999 The ongoing abuse of psychiatric patients by profit driven Health Maintenance Organisations (HMOs) in the US will...
by NAPP Support | May 25, 1999 | Media Release
Psychiatric services reduced not increased – Media Release – 25 May 1999 The latest admission by Federal Health Minister, Dr Michael Wooldridge, that he had been wrong when he told the Parliament that his cuts to psychiatric rebates had resulted in a 10%...
by NAPP Support | Jan 28, 1999 | Media Release
Youth Suicide – Not an issue for political point scoring – Media Release – 28 January 1999 “The Federal Health Minister, Dr Michael Wooldridge is engaging in the politics of blame and diversion in a desperate attempt to deflect attention from...
by NAPP Support | Apr 14, 1998 | Media Release, Submissions
The draft report into private health insurance released by the Productivity Commission raises serious concerns for Australians who might suffer an episode of psychiatric illness and who have traditionally sought private health insurance to provide alternatives to the...