AHHA commends the draft Australian Cancer Plan (the Plan) for the inclusion of priorities, strategic objectives, goals, and actions that align with need for person-centred, outcomes-focused and valuebased health care reforms to create a health system for a healthy Australia.
Successful implementation of the Plan will be enabled only by broader health system reform and investment. Without system reforms that are adequately resourced and funded, the Plan’s strategic objectives for an integrated, coordinated, data driven health system that delivers person centred cancer care to achieve the outcomes that matter to people and communities cannot be truly realised.
We commend the ambition of the Plan and offer our support for, and advice on, the system-level changes required to realise them. Below we have drawn out some of the specific elements of the Plan we support and outlined considerations for their implementation
