CPD Fellows argue for more inclusive, comprehensive dental reform to cover the most vulnerable While the government’s $4bn dental health reform package has the potential to reduce waiting lists and encourage early intervention, it has… more
Reclaiming universal 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.
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… more
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’: 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… more
‘A Health Policy for Australia’: response #3
Don Hindle likes the proposal for a single health insurance scheme but says that user payments are ‘a dumb idea that won't die’.
‘A Health Policy for Australia’: response #2
The second response to A Health Policy for Australia by David More highlights the promise and the possibilities of health information technology.
‘A Health Policy for Australia’: response #1
In the first of a series of responses to A Health Policy for Australia: reclaiming universal health care, Gavin Mooney argues for more emphasis on inequity, transparency, management, community participation in setting principles, Aboriginal health,… more
Clarification: what we really mean by universalism
John Menadue explains why A Health Policy for Australia criticises the private insurance industry.