Two-thirds of Australians currently have to pay out-of-pocket for appointments with specialists such as psychiatrists and cardiologists, often hundreds of dollars per visit. For those with complex, chronic conditions that demand targeted interventions, these costs quickly add up. Nearly a million Australians are delaying or skipping specialist care due to cost, risking their wellbeing and driving up pressure on hospitals.

Creating meaningful change to address these wicked problems requires developing a vision for the system, and challenging the process by which we manage, fund, deliver, and receive care, which have been left on autopilot for too long.

Join us for our next webinar, where Peter Breadon, Health Program Director at the Grattan Institute, will unpack insights from their recent report Special treatment: Improving Australians’ access to specialist care.

We will explore the root problems of Australia’s “pay or delay” system, focusing on how we support the health workforce, the maldistribution of public specialist services, and how we modernise specialist care to meet changing needs and expectations in care, to deliver the health system Australians deserve.

Held in collaboration with the Grattan Institute.

Speakers:

• Peter Breadon, Health Program Director, Grattan Institute
• Tony Farley, Interim Chief Executive Officer, AHHA Ltd