AHHA is Australia’s national peak body for public hospitals and health care 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.
Foundational principles of Australia’s universal healthcare system include that clinicians are free to provide their services as private providers; and that patient choice is available, both for services from clinicians and from hospitals.