Patterns of drug and alcohol use are changing and this issues paper provides an overview of the health impacts in Australia. It identifies opportunities to revise and enhance Australia's approach to alcohol and drugs, including reviewing the current funding allocation across demand reduction, supply reduction and harm reduction.

In order to alleviate the burden of disease caused by diabetes in Australia, this report asserts that the primary aim must be prevention, and it is very important that every strategy possible is used as part of a comprehensive preventative response, requiring an all-of-government approach.

A national long COVID and COVID-19 database is among the key recommendations in this report. Overall, the Committee makes nine recommendations aimed at strengthening the Australian government’s management of long COVID.

This issues paper has been released to provide interested parties with an update on the Committee’s inquiry to date, and also to identify some of the issues and themes emerging from the Committee’s preliminary investigations and to highlight gaps and areas that the Committee intends to examine during upcoming public hearings.

This report examines the opportunities to deliver better health care for Australians through our regulatory and health technology assessment process for both medicines and technologies.