Month: July 2021

Miss Casey Haining1, Professor Louise Keogh1 1University Of Melbourne, , Australia When voluntary assisted dying (VAD) was legalised in Victoria, it was apparent that a subset of the medical community, due to a conflict in conscience, would not be participating...

Jessica Pace1 1Sydney Health Ethics, University Of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Numerous policy approaches aim to address concerns regarding timely access to medicines. These may provide patients with a wider range of treatment options and earlier access to cancer medicines but...

Victoria Charlton1 1King’s College London, United Kingdom Health technology assessment (HTA) is an inherently normative activity. Decisions about society’s adoption of particular technologies are shaped by the interaction between empirical evidence and the many values, principles, norms and judgements that...

Associate Professor Taylor-Sands/Michelle Taylor-sands1, Dr Georgina Dimopoulos2 1Melbourne Law School, Parkville, Australia, 2Swinburne Law School, Hawthorn, Australia In Re Imogen [No 6] (2020) 61 Fam LR 344, the Family Court of Australia held that where a parent of an adolescent...

Dr Rosalind McDougall1, Dr Bridget  Pratt1, Dr Marcus Sellars2 1School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, , Australia, 2Department of Health Services Research & Policy, The Australian National University, Australia Background: In Victoria, legislation allowing voluntary assisted dying...

Dr Owen Bradfield1 1University Of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia In today’s online world of social media, apps and smartphones, people constantly shed data and leave behind digital footprints. When individuals access health services, governments and health providers collect and store large...

Dr Owen Bradfield1 1University Of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia COVID-19 vaccines are now being distributed and administered around the world. It is widely accepted that healthcare workers should have high priority. However, questions have been raised about what we ought to...

Professor Cameron Stewart1 1Sydney Health Law, Australia Advances in intensive care have made it possible for brain dead pregnant women to be provided with somatic support to enable their fetuses to gestate to the point where they can survive being...

A/Prof George Skowronski1, A/Prof Michael O’Leary2, Ms Lisa O’Reilly3, Dr Cynthia Forlini5, Dr Narcyz Ghinea3, Dr Linda Sheahan3, Prof Cameron Stewart6, Prof Ian Kerridge6 1St George Hospital Sydney, Kogarah, Australia, 2Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia, 3South East Sydney Local...

Dr Chase Schultz-Swarthfigure1, Professor Anne-Marie Kelly1, Associate Professor Deborah  Zion2 1Western Health, Melbourne, Australia, 2Victoria University, Melbourne, Footscray, Australia Background: Health research often uses personal health information (PHI). Conditions under which PHI can be used for the secondary purpose of...