Inquiries
Public inquiries and commissioned studies give the opportunity for all points of view in the community to be heard and considered. All individuals, firms, groups and organisations with an interest in an inquiry can participate in the inquiry.
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Rachel van Someren (PDF - 9k)
Submission 109 for Identifying Sectors For Reform View full list
Brief submission Having worked for 16 years for a Public Health Service in the field of disability and rehabilitation I have seen the difference between the quality and service provided publically and that provided privately. The most physically
Date received: 25 Jul 2016
Gemma Rigutto (PDF - 33k)
Submission 50 for Identifying Sectors For Reform View full list
It is not possible to actual consider costs in private hospitals and public hospitals in any way as the people in public hospitals are a totally differently aspirated group whose attitude to health and community is one of giving. Many of the
Date received: 25 Jul 2016
Janine Donaldson (PDF - 61k)
Submission 157 for Identifying Sectors For Reform View full list
Brief submission My professional experience has included working in the private, government and non- profit sectors, and I have seen how the health system affects people's capacity to be healthy across different socio- economic groups. People who
Date received: 25 Jul 2016
Megan Elliott-Rudder (PDF - 34k)
Submission 63 for Identifying Sectors For Reform View full list
Medicare needs to remain a Public Health Service. Private health providers must be an option but they cannot be relied in for universal coverage. Already patients struggle due to unaffordable procedural specialists and a dearth of public clinics.
Date received: 25 Jul 2016
Thorlene Egerton (PDF - 9k)
Submission 117 for Identifying Sectors For Reform View full list
Brief submission I think there is a role for private sector health care operating concurrently with public health. It can lead to positive changes such as a greater emphasis on disease prevention and wellness and support for self-management. These
Date received: 25 Jul 2016
Anne Lavery (PDF - 63k)
Submission 59 for Identifying Sectors For Reform View full list
When profit enters any equation on health, good care goes out the window. In a major North Sydney private hospital on a Saturday evening recently, a doctor inserted an intravenous catheter and gave IV antibiotics to a patient with post- op infection.
Date received: 25 Jul 2016
Shobha Varkey (PDF - 61k)
Submission 151 for Identifying Sectors For Reform View full list
Letting private providers into Medicare could see for-profit companies making critical decisions about who gets treated and how. This would lead to a two-tiered system where those with the financial means receive preferential treatment, and those
Date received: 25 Jul 2016
Angela Fyfe (PDF - 87k)
Submission 190 for Identifying Sectors For Reform View full list
Brief submission Having Nursed in the 60's prior to Medicare, I can remember the anxiety of patients regarding how they would pay for the health costs, the reluctance of Doctors to order some tests/ investigations to assist in proper diagnosis and
Date received: 25 Jul 2016
Dr Ian Hills (PDF - 84k)
Submission 88 for Identifying Sectors For Reform View full list
Brief submission I have completed a 45 career in Psychology as a provider of clinical psychology and counselling services, a supervisor and teacher. I am now an aged pensioner and a consumer of health services. Prior to the introduction of Medicare
Date received: 25 Jul 2016
Jacqueline Franklin (PDF - 9k)
Submission 103 for Identifying Sectors For Reform View full list
Brief submission To Whom it may Concern - My Jacqueline Franklin Submission of 20/07/2016. While you can or may make empowered changes to a variety of Human Services Portfolios putting us the Public with Families into forced Privatisation financial
Date received: 25 Jul 2016
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- productivity inquiry (2023)
- broadcasting
- skills and workforce development agreement
- access to justice arrangements
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- housing and homelessness agreement review
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- closing the gap review
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- australia's general tariff arrangements
- national water reform 2024
- superannuation
- assessing efficiency and competitiveness
- cost recovery by commonwealth agencies
- future drought fund
- regulation of agriculture
- reforms to human services
- five-year assessment
- early childhood development
- australia's urban water sector