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The debate over funding for public hospitals has become so entrenched that policy makers can no longer think beyond the fight over who should cough up the dollars. In this CPD Occasional Paper, Jennifer Doggett explores the case for taking the pressure off hospitals in an entirely new way.

A New Approach to Primary Care for Australia

The best way to take the pressure off hospitals is to ensure that most people don't need to go there in the first place. In this new paper Jennifer Doggett explains how we can reorient Australia's health system towards primary and preventative care.


Integrated Primary Health Care

The need to develop and implement an improved community based primary health care system has never been stronger. As a CPD subscriber you are entitled to a 10% discount if you attend Integrated Primary Health Care 2009 to discover how existing models of equitable community based care are being established nationally.

Date: 30th September - 1st October 2009.



Reflections on the NHHRC Interim Report

Centre for Policy Development fellow and author of A New Approach to Primary Care for Australia,Jennifer Doggett, weighs up the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission (NHHRC) Interim Report.


Are Doctors the Cornerstones of Primary Health Care?

Are doctors the cornerstones of primary health care?, asks Tim Woodruff in his address to the Victorian Healthcare Association Conference. 'If they are currently, they shouldn't be. Patients should be. The fact that we have in this country a health system which uses a funding system for primary care centred around funding providers - not patients, not need - is a sad reflection that patients are no longer the cornerstone of primary care.'


What is the health service for? Where is the strategy in health reform?

CPD Board Director John Menadue AO presented "What is the health service for? Where is the strategy in health reform?" for the Victorian Healthcare Association's Annual Conference in Melbourne, 17 October 2008.


Health Economics talk for Directors of Pharmacy

CPD fellow Jennifer Doggett will address the Directors of Pharmacy from all the major public hospitals in NSW and the ACT when she speaks on health financing reforms at a Hospira information session on October 31, 2008.


CPD submission to the NHHRC

In response to their call for submissions on its Draft Principles for Australia's Health System and on its Terms of Reference, the Centre for Policy Development offered the NHHRC comments based on our own research and publications in the area of health policy reform.


Health & hospital reform: advice to the commissioners

Jennifer Doggett, Ian McAuley, and Denis King offer a few words of advice to the new members of the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission.


$1.1 billion chance to change health care

First published in Crikey, this is Jennifer Doggett's call for the $1.1bn shortfall in hospital funding to be redirected into primary care.


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