Health
Medical services have changed radically over the past 20 years, including new models of patient care, health service management, and health funding models.
Continuing advances in medical research and technology (including information technology) will offer even more opportunities to improve patients’ survival and quality of life – at a cost. At the same time, our aging population will increase demand for services.
As a result, health services face enormous cost pressures. With a limit to available resources, we face a range of choices in how we manage and deliver health services, which Grattan Institute will examine.
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Publications and News
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We Need More Doctors In The House
Publication | 17 July 2010 | Health
In an article published in the Weekend Australia, David Penington discusses the need for health professionals to play a larger role in order to ensure real reform in Australian hospitals.
| Submission to Senate Standing Committee
Publication | 28 May 2010 | Health
Professor David Penington made a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration for the inquiry into the COAG reforms relating to health and hospitals.
| Australia's Health System is Ailing
Publication | 25 May 2010 | Health
In every Western country, health costs are rising well ahead of the consumer price index. The recent COAG health reforms are insufficient to address Australia's ailing health system, writes David Penington.
| Ailing Health System Needs Rudd's Reforms
Publication | 31 March 2010 | Health
There is much to be done in health reform, but the Prime Minister has taken the important first steps, and the states should be collaborating rather than holding back, writes David Penington.
| Prime Minister Rudd's plan for reforming Australian public hospitals
Publication | 10 March 2010 | Health
Kevin Rudd's election commitment in November 2007 to take over the funding of public hospitals and fix them has led to a bold and courageous plan, unveiled after a 15 month review by the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) and further extensive consultations. The real questions are whether the solution offered on 3 March 2010 for public hospitals will work, and what problems will it solve? Further debate is urgently needed.
| Decision Time for Public Hospitals
Publication | 30 November 2009 | Health
On Monday 7 December Kevin Rudd will present to COAG, what recommendations of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC), or what alternatives should be adopted. COAG will reach final decisions at a further meeting in March 2010. In 2007, he had promised to 'fix' the public hospitals, taking them over if the States had not fixed them in a year.
| National Plan for Health Clusters
Publication | 1 October 2009 | Health
The Rudd government promised to 'fix up' the public hospitals, but the review of hospitals by NHHRC doesn't solve the tough problems: not enough attention was given to quality of care, safety, and innovation. These things are hard for bureaucrats to measure, but they matter a lot.
| David Penington joins Grattan Institute
Media Release | 4 September 2009 | Health
David Penington joins Grattan Institute as a Senior Fellow.
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