The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan (Working Draft).
AHHA provided the following submission in response to the Australian Government Department of Health’s Medical Research Future Fund consultation to inform the third Australian Medical Research and Innovation Priorities 2020-2022.
‘The announcement by the Commonwealth Department of Health that hospital doctors will be permitted to write Closing the Gap prescriptions for their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients is long overdue’, says Australian Healthcare and Hospitals...
‘Action is urgently needed to confront the immense health disparities in kidney disease outcomes suffered by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’, says Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association Strategic Programs Director, Dr Chris Bourke...
‘Today is National Close the Gap Day 2020, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people being at increased risk from the current COVID-19 pandemic compared with non-Indigenous Australians’, Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association...
The AHHA has developed a range of evidenced-based position statements to communicate our position on key issues of relevance to achieving a healthy Australia, supported by the best possible...
