Medical care
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Medical policy
Medical research
Medicine
Report
Current barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia
This report recommends that Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) review and improve its online resources for health professionals relating to the regulations and processes for prescribing medicinal cannabis through the Special Access Scheme and Authorised Prescriber pathways.
Report
Coordination of health care: experiences of barriers to accessing health services among patients aged 45 and over (2016)
Having timely access to health-care professionals when a person needs it is crucial to preventing, treating and managing health conditions. This report looks at the associations between selected patient characteristics and self-reported experiences of barriers to accessing GPs and specialists.
Report
Global data access for solving rare disease
Sharing data on rare diseases globally could provide benefits to diagnosis, management and treatment, clinical trials and personal well-being. This paper highlights the value of a global framework.
Report
Hospitalised sports injury in Australia, 2016–17
This report examines sports injuries that were serious enough to require a person to stay in hospital. It does not include information on people who sought treatment at hospital emergency departments; general practitioner clinics; sports medicine centres; or from allied health practitioners such as physiotherapists.
Strategy
WA cancer plan 2020–2025
This strategy document provides high level direction to guide the optimal delivery of cancer control and research to meet the needs of Western Australians impacted by cancer. The plan supports cancer control and research organisations to embrace innovation and change, be outward looking and fit for the future, and to build on partnerships – particularly...