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The 'Dispatched' Podcast

The 'Dispatched' Podcast

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BioPharmaDispatch - discussing the issues impacting the Australian biopharmaceutical and life sciences sectors with Paul Cross and Felicity McNeill.

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Episodes
  • The 'Dispatched' Week in Review' - 17 April

    The 'Dispatched' Week in Review' - 17 April
    Apr 17 2026

    An unhinged reaction to the new pharmacy prescribing initiative in New South Wales, why Australia needs to be humble in any health system comparison with the US, and given that the Government sets and umpires the rules for reimbursing innovative technologies, it can hardly complain when companies say no.
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    57 mins
  • The 'Dispatched' Week in Review - 10 April

    The 'Dispatched' Week in Review - 10 April
    Apr 10 2026

    Australia’s health system is overly bureaucratic, opaque, and misaligned, with reforms like the HTA Review slowing access rather than improving it. Decision-making prioritises institutional processes over patients, who remain largely excluded despite bearing the consequences. The system is based on a transactional model, and without genuine patient-led change, core structural problems will continue.
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    59 mins
  • The 'Dispatched' Week in Review'- 2 April

    The 'Dispatched' Week in Review'- 2 April
    Apr 2 2026

    In this week's episode, the discussion focuses on Health Minister Mark Butler's address at an event in Sydney and its invocation of history as the framework for pending negotiations over HTA reforms and PBS pricing. Also, strange comments by one senior official about evidence in healthcare decision-making send a clear signal about some of the thinking that might impact the next one to two years.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
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