Philip Haywood

The cost governments are willing to pay drug companies for medicines depends on the outcome the drug will provide. from www.shutterstock.com

November 20, 2017

Explainer: how is the price of medicine decided in Australia?

Rosalie Viney, University of Technology Sydney; Philip Haywood, University of Technology Sydney, and Richard De Abreu Lourenco, University of Technology Sydney

Have you ever wondered why some drugs are so cheap, and others so expensive? Here’s why.

It doesn’t matter how you count it, Tony Shepherd’s claim that Australians see doctors 11 times a year just doesn’t add up. AAP/Lukas Coch

May 7, 2014

FactCheck: does the average Australian go to the doctor 11 times a year?

Richard Norman, University of Technology Sydney and Philip Haywood, University of Technology Sydney

All Australians, on average, go to the doctor now 11 times per year. I just don’t think we’re that crook. – Tony Shepherd, Commission of Audit Chairman, press conference on the report’s launch, May 1 The…

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