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Welcome to the Doctors Reform Society of Australia
The Doctors Reform Society (DRS) is an organisation of doctors and medical students promoting measures to improve health for all, in a socially just and equitable way. The Society was formed in 1973 to support a proposal for a publicly-funded universal health insurance system.? Medibank (now Medicare) was successfully created despite opposition from the Australian Medical Association.
All members’ views are valued, and open debate on all health issues is encouraged both within and outside the organisation.? The DRS functions as a medico-political think tank, a lobby group and a public resource centre.
Join the DRS
Membership of the Doctors’ Reform Society is open to all medical practitioners and medical students who believe that everyone, regardless of their social or economic status, should have access to high quality healthcare.
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DRS National Conference September 2017
The 2017 National DRS Conference was held in Melbourne in September. Tim Woodruff started the day with an expansion of his article about a Basic Income Guarantee as a health issue (see articles). Dr Harry Jennens founder of Healthy?Futures then told us about the climate and health case for divestment and his organisation’s work in lobbying superannuation funds to divest.
Tony McBride, a previous chair of the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance, and currently a?director of the Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network (PHN) helped us to understand how the PHNs are evolving and their opportunities and challenges. Harry Lovelock, Senior Executive Manager from the Australian Psychological Society then gave us a very broad picture of the successes and failures of?mental health policy over recent years.
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Doctors for the Environment Australia
We are happy to be supporting this campaign by Doctors for the Environment Australia. As GP Tim Senior said this week, “Any party going into..
TIM WOODRUFF. Health Policy and Successful Politics. | John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations
“Can a progressive government grasp the opportunity and step forward with a new way of getting complex change to occur in a federated system..
We’re proud to be part of this open letter on climate change, along with so many others. For the sake of the health of all of us, let’s help..