Health

While our health care services are not in terminal decline, they are suffering from some chronic illnesses. Yet successive governments have examined our health care policies and done little more than slap on some sticking-plaster and send the more demanding patients away with a jellybean. The CPD's work tackles the inefficiency, inequity and needless complexity of our health system. We provide a platform for experts, stakeholders and citizens to share information and develop ideas to resuscitate Australia's ailing health policies.

Reclaiming universal care

The Centre for Policy Development is concerned about the drift towards a two-tier system in health care. With the ReThink paper A Health Policy for Australia: reclaiming universal health care, we hope to spark debate about how we can restore universalism and increase both equity and efficiency in health care – at no additional cost to the taxpayer.

Primary Care

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.

Citizen Engagement

workforce reform

AFR 10th Annual Health Congress: Building a healthcare system around people and their needs

CPD Chair John Menadue and fellow Ian MacAuley will speak at the Australian Financial Review's annual Health Congress held in Sydney on February 27th-29th, 2008.

Health

AFR 10th Annual Health Congress: Building a healthcare system around people and their needs

CPD Chair John Menadue and fellow Ian MacAuley will speak at the Australian Financial Review's annual Health Congress held in Sydney on February 27th-29th, 2008.

Health

John Menadue at the Victorian Healthcare Association conference

John Menadue will address the Victorian Healthcare Association on 'the reform agenda', Tuesday November 13. His speech is available for download here.

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Citizen juries in Health

CPD and Sydney University's Australian Health Policy Institute will present a joint seminar on the use of citizen juries to improve outcomes in health policy decisions on Thursday 18 October at the Eastern Avenue Auditorium, University of Sydney.

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.

Primary Care

Occasional Papers

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'.

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CPD Road Test: Mersey Hospital Takeover

With so many design faults, the Mersey Hospital takeover will have engine failure before it leaves the garage, write Jennifer Doggett and Edwina Burns.

Federalism

CPD health fact sheets

We have prepared 5 simple fact sheets to outline where health policy is currently at - and where the major parties are promising to take it after Saturday's election.