• Inequalities of health
• The future of Medicare
• Policy implications of new modes of consumer access to health information
• The implications of the NSW Health Council report
• Safety and quality in healthcare
• Politics and policies in implementing effective health care
• Being effective: introducing a comprehensive formalisation of common-sense
• A population health perspective on evidence-based decision-making
• Information economics and evidence-based medicine

Inequalities of health

2 November 2000

Presented by Sir Donald Acheson, Chairman, International Centre for Health and Safety, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London

Discussants:

• Associate Professor Jane Hall, Director, Centre for Health Economics Research
• Professor John McCallum, Dean, College of Health
• Professor Miles Little, Emeritus Professor, Centre for Values Ethics and Law in Medicine

The future of Medicare

3 August 2000

Presented by Professor John Deeble, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University

Policy implications of new modes of consumer access to health information

22 June 2000

Presented by Dr Andrew Wilson, Managing Director, High Performance Healthcare

The implications of the NSW Health Council report

23 March 2000

Presented by Mr Michael Reid, Director-General, NSW Health Department

Discussants:

• Ms Betty Johnson
• Dr Gavin Frost, Chief Medical Officer, Medical Benefits Fund of Australia
• Dr Patrick Bolton, Director, Canterbury Division of General Practice
• Dr Peter Sainsbury, Director, Division of Population Health

Safety and quality in healthcare

9 February 2000

Presented by Professor Bruce Barraclough, President, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

Discussants:

• Ms Merrilyn Walton
• Professor Bruce Armstrong, Director, Cancer Control Information Centre, New South Wales Cancer Council
• Dr Ross Wilson, Chairman, NSW Ministerial Committee on Quality in Healthcare

Politics and policies in implementing effective health care

10 November 1999

Presentation by Dr Andrew Wilson, Chief Health Officer of NSW and Deputy Director-General for Public Health in the NSW Health Department

Being effective: introducing a comprehensive formalisation of common-sense

Presented by Dr Warren Kinston, Principal, The SIGMA (Systematizing Imagination to Support Goals Management and Action) Centre, London, UK

A population health perspective on evidence-based decision-making

11 August 1999

Presented by Professor Stephen Birch, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Commentators:

• Professor Bettina Cass
• Professor David Henderson-Smart
• Dr Andrew Wilson

Information economics and evidence-based medicine

1 July 1999

Presented by Professor Enrico Coiera, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales