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Overdiagnosis is now coming to serious attention in the research and healthcare communities around the world.

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Wiser Healthcare Public Event

First, Do No Harm: The Perils of Too Much Medicine and How We Can Tackle It

11 October 2021

Wiser Healthcare presents this powerful livestreamed discussion with globally respected doctors on the perils of too much medicine.

Wiser Healthcare’s Dr Ray Moynihan, from Bond University, moderated conversations with Professors Rachelle Buchbinder and Ian Harris, speaking on their explosive new book “Hippocrasy: how doctors are betraying their oath” and with Dr Ranjana Srivastava – author, oncologist and well-known Guardian columnist. Jan Donovan from the Consumers’ Health Forum of Australia then joined the group for a panel discussion and live question and answer session with the audience.

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Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference Webinar

Learning from the pandemic: Can COVID-19 help us build a better healthcare system?

17 November 2020

The Asia-Pacific, and final, PODC webinar for 2020 was hosted by PODC partner Wiser Healthcare. This webinar focused on system impacts of COVID-19 and potential future implications for the healthcare system, addressing these questions:

  1. How has healthcare service utilisation changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what has this revealed about effective and ineffective care?
  2. Have these changes made things better or worse for patients, publics, healthcare workers, and healthcare systems?
  3. Can COVID-19 disruption help healthcare build back better: with less low value care, more needed care, and minimal under- and overdiagnosis?

The event was chaired by senior Wiser Healthcare investigator Prof Paul Glasziou, who welcomed two speakers followed by a moderated Q&A panel discussion. Note the content had an Australian-lens but global data is presented, and inferences for global systems can be made.

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Australian National Cervical Screening – Panel Discussion

The University of Sydney, March 2019

Evidence review for the renewal of the National Cervical Screening Program.

Click here to download the panel powerpoint slides.

For further information, or if you have any questions, please contact Dr Rachael Dodd

Treatment overload: Lifting the burden of too much healthcare

Partnership Centre for Health System Sustainability, November 2019

Interview with PCHSS’ Professor Paul Glasziou about low-value healthcare and ways to reduce the burden on our health system.

Prof Stephen Walter – Prostate Cancer Screening

The University of Sydney, August 2018

Prof Stephen Walter takes us through methods for estimating the benefits and harms of prostate cancer screening.

From STEP to Wiser Healthcare seminar

The University of Sydney, November 2016

Jamie E’s back pain story

painHEALTH, October 2016

Watch Jamie share his experience with back pain and hear how he found a way through and back to a fully active, engaged and meaningful life.

Back pain – separating fact from fiction

Pain-Ed, September 2015

Prof Peter O’Sullivan discusses some of the myths about back pain which are widely held and negatively impact on the perception and treatment of back pain.

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The Recommended Dose with Ray Moynihan

Cochrane Australia

Hosted by acclaimed journalist and health researcher Dr Ray Moynihan, The Recommended Dose tackles the big questions in health and explores the insights, evidence and ideas of extraordinary researchers, thinkers, writers and health professionals from around the globe. Produced by Cochrane Australia and co-published with the BMJ.

Is the health sector key to a low-carbon world?

Co presented with the Planetary Health Platform and Wiser Healthcare

The University of Sydney, May 2018

In this Sydney Ideas talk, Dr David Pencheon and the panel discussed how the Australian healthcare system is one of the leading contributors to climate change, how big data-sets can be used for quantifying supply-chain impacts of healthcare, and explore how the health and care sectors can work together to drive large-scale transformational change by addressing environmental, social and economic sustainability in a holistic manner.

Precision medcine: can it live up to the hype?

A Sydney Ideas event, co-presented by Wiser Healthcare, the Australian Epidemiological Association & the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.

The University of Sydney, October 2019

The promise of precision medicine is that it could offer better health outcomes by targeting patients’ genetic and biochemical make-up to pinpoint, predict, prevent and treat diseases. Can it deliver on this?

Hear world-renowned thinkers explore some of the key issues around precision medicine. They analyse the realities of disease prediction, economics, ethics, clinical applications and the balance between the personal and the public benefit.

Featuring:
– Professor Sandro Galea, Boston University
– Professor Sarah Wordsworth, University of Oxford
– Professor Christopher Semsarian, University of Sydney
– Associate Professor Ainsley Newson, University of Sydney
– (Chair) Professor Robyn Ward, University of Sydney

Is Too Much Testing and Treatment Making Us Sick?

The University of Sydney, May 2016

We all want to be able to get good healthcare when we need it. But what would it mean to provide and consume healthcare wisely? This panel discussion with Dr Iona Heath considers a radical idea: that sometimes wiser healthcare means less healthcare. Or at least, less healthcare for people who don’t need it, so we can give more healthcare to people who do.