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Primary health care reform in Australia

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01 September 2009This report provides background to the Draft National Primary Health Care Strategy as well as providing evidence to support future investment in, and reform of, the primary health care system.

The report also examines key issues that were raised under the ten individual Elements of the National Primary Health Care Strategy discussion paper, Towards a National Primary Health Care Strategy, which was publicly released on 30 October 2008.

The draft strategy, Building a 21st Century Primary Health Care System, is available here.

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Publisher TypeGovernment or Gov agency
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Permanent URLhttp://apo.org.au/node/18746
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