AHHA is Australia’s national peak body for public hospitals and healthcare providers. Our membership includes state and territory health departments, Local Hospital Networks (LHNs) and public hospitals, community health services, Primary Health Networks (PHNs) and primary healthcare providers, aged care providers, universities, individual health professionals and academics. As such, we are uniquely placed to be an independent, national voice for universal high-quality health care to benefit the whole community.
To achieve a healthy Australia supported by the best possible healthcare system, AHHA recommends Australia reform the healthcare system over the next 10 years by enabling person-centred, outcomes-focused and value-based health care. This requires:
1. A nationally unified and regionally controlled health system that puts people at the centre
2. Performance information and reporting that is fit for purpose
3. A health workforce that exists to serve and meet population health needs
4. Funding that is sustainable and appropriate to support a high-quality health system.
AHHA’s Healthy people, healthy systems1 is a blueprint for reform (the Blueprint) with a series of short, medium, and long-term actions to achieve this goal. The actions outlined in the Blueprint closely align with the initiatives mapped out in the Australian Health Minister’s National Health Reform Agreement (NHRA) – Long-term health reforms roadmap2. It is within this context that the following feedback has been provided.