AHHA is Australia’s national peak body for public hospitals and healthcare providers. Our membership includes state 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 healthcare to benefit the whole community.
In general, AHHA supports the proposed approach of internationally aligning the Australian regulatory framework for medical devices where appropriate, not regulating products where there is no risk to patient safety or public health and noting that products are still subject to relevant consumer laws, and not regulating a product where an appropriate patient safety framework for a product or system oversight is already in place.