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Of commissions and consortia: a new model for aged care

Editor: Amy CoopesAuthor: Michele Smithon: February 27, 2020In: aged care, Primary Health Networks

Introduction by Croakey: The Federal Opposition stepped up its push against the so-called privatisation of Australia’s Aged Care Assessment Teams (ACAT) this week, calling on the Morri... Read more

Department of Health’s tightly constrained, highly managed budget inhibits innovation – Duckett

Editor: Jennifer DoggettAuthor: Stephen Ducketton: November 20, 2019In: health reform, primary health care

Health Minister Greg Hunt has nominated primary health care as one of the pillars of the Australian health system and recently appointed a panel of experts to advise on the development of a... Read more

The challenge of implementing integrated health care

Editor: Dr Ruth ArmstrongAuthor: Walter Kmeton: March 10, 2019In: health reform, primary health care, public health

Introduction by Croakey’s Dr Ruth Armstrong: When I worked as a GP in the 1990’s, I used to dream of a scenario whereby I and my patients would have seamless access to a range of... Read more

The Health Wrap: Lives, deaths, research and reports, as some of us wait for the spring melt

Editor: Dr Ruth ArmstrongAuthor: Lesley Russellon: March 08, 2019In: health inequalities, mental health, primary health care, public health, Social determinants of health

Our intrepid health wrapper, Dr Lesley Russell, is still drifting delicately through powder snow in Colorado this week but her eagle eyes haven’t missed much on her way down the slopes. Belo... Read more

Commissioning no cure for Australian health equity

Editor: Amy CoopesAuthor: Amy Coopeson: June 14, 2017In: health inequalities, primary health care, Primary Health Networks, public health, Public health and population health, rural and remote health, Social determinants of health

Though it has the potential to increase objectivity, improve targeted delivery of services and reduce conflicts of interest, opening primary care to market forces is a poor fit for the Austr... Read more

Stories from Primary Health Networks – small fish in poorly mapped, choppy seas

Editor: Marie McInerneyAuthor: Melissa Sweeton: May 26, 2017In: #ruralhealthconf, Croakey longreads, health reform, Indigenous health, mental health, primary health care, Primary Health Networks, rural and remote health

Some of the big challenges facing the country’s 31 primary health networks (PHNs), established in July 2015 by the Coalition Government to replace the 61 Medicare Locals created under the pr... Read more