Navigating the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme: A Scheme of Big Ideas and Big Challenges.

One of Australia's biggest reforms - the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) - is intended to provide people with choice and certainty of access to disability supports. It replaced an underfunded, unfair, fragmented and inefficient "system". However, recently, the NDIS has received criticism in regard to access and the provision of supports.

Mandatory Welfare Drug Treatment in Australia.

In 2017 and 2018 Australia almost implemented laws to require unemployed people to undertake mandatory drug testing and treatment. Debate about linking welfare with mandatory drug treatment suffers from the complexity and paucity of research specifically about the efficacy of mandatory welfare drug treatment. This allows the possibility for mandatory welfare drug treatment to remain on the political horizon.

Peripheral nerve blocks for paediatric day-stay surgery: one year's experience in a district general hospital.

Two hundred children underwent day-care surgery using peripheral nerve blockade as an adjunct to general anaesthesia during a twelve month period. Total post-operative analgesia was achieved in 86%, simple oral analgesia was needed in 9% and the remaining 5% of patients required systemic opiate administration for pain.