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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The Dispatched Podcast 'Week in Review' - 20 February
Episode 5
Thursday, 19 February, 2026

Australia’s system for deciding whether new health technologies are funded is too focused on contested models and not enough on real people and their needs. The lack of human consideration leads to long delays, avoidable suffering, and sometimes deaths, in a process where patient voices are 'summarised' into oblivion while insiders talk around the problem instead of fixing it quickly, openly, and based on our shared values.