The AHHA is Australia’s national peak body for public hospitals and healthcare providers. Our membership includes state health departments, Local Hospital Networks and public hospitals, community health services, Primary Health Networks 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 healthcare to benefit the whole community.
Ongoing renewal and reform are features of the Australian health system, driven both by budget pressures and a desire for system improvement. Australians place high value on universal access to a quality health system. To meet this expectation, the 2018–19 Budget must ensure its health policies and reforms will continue to support an effective, accessible, equitable and sustainable healthcare system focused on quality outcomes.
