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Reclaiming universal care

Australia is drifting towards a two-tier system in health care. The paper A Health Policy for Australia: reclaiming universal health care explores how we can restore universalism and increase both equity and efficiency in health care – at no additional cost to the taxpayer.

Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of Medicare

John Menadue Calls for all good people to come to the aid of Medicare in his address to the Victorian Healthcare Association Annual Conference held in Melbourne, 23 October 2009


National Healthcare Reform Conference

National Healthcare Reform Conference

30th November - December 2nd 2009, Rydges, Canberra

Hear from the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission about the impending national healthcare reforms. Many expert speakers including CPD Fellow Ian McAuley. CPD Subscribers receive 15% discount. For more information and to register for this event click here.



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.


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.


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.


What's Super about Labor's new GP clinics?

Jennifer Doggett revisits the arguments for investing in primary care and looks at what will be involved in implementing Labor's election policy on 'GP Super Clinics'.


A Health Policy for Australia: reclaiming universal care

A Health Policy for Australia: reclaiming universal health care shows how we can restore universalism and increase both equity and efficiency in health care - at no additional cost to the taxpayer.


Paying for health care

Are taxpayers getting value for money out of Private Health Insurance susbsidies? Ian McAuley looks at the latest OECD data to determine what works in health care financing.


'A Health Policy for Australia': response #4

Tim Woodruff of the Doctors Reform Society argues that the fee for service contribution to the inappropriate use of health services has not been considered adequately and that the comparitive inefficiencies of the private sector vs the public sector are ignored.


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