Bio

Tim Woodruff is President of the Doctors Reform Society, an organisation of doctors and medical students supporting health care reforms to ensure justice, equity and quality care for all regardless of social or economic status.

Tim Woodruff's contributions:

Putting Health in Local Hands

Armstrong, Woodruff, Legge and Wilson argue that the best way to overcome the entrenched inequities and blame-shifting in Australia's health system is to shift funding and power to regional health organisations.

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• by Miriam Lyons

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• Citizen Services

• RHO
• Primary care
• NHHRC

Bringing Health Care back to Local Communities

Tim Woodruff, David Legge, Rod Wilson, and Fiona Armstrong propose a new model for healthcare funding and administration to address the inequities and inefficiencies in our health system: We propose shifting the focus of the health system to a regional level, where locally determined health data and the input of local communities are used to drive change. It is a proposal for significant structural change which also allows for gradual introduction to allow capacity building, and the retention of the many excellent elements of the current health system. It uses the equitable and evidence based distribution of funds to locally governed entities to address both inequity and inefficiency.

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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.'

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• Health
• Primary Care

Strategic directions for a national primary health care policy

This article proposes a 'cooperative federalist' approach to funding and workforce integration with the aim of improving primary care across Australia over 5 to 10 years.

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• by Miriam Lyons

• Primary Care

• Federalism

'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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• by Tim Woodruff

• Reclaiming universal care

The problem with Medicare Gold

Tim Woodruff offers a valuable critique of Labor's Medicare Gold.

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• Health