This report recommends improvements in the way new health technologies, procedures and services are assessed for public and private funding in Australia.

This report details the impact of the various aspects of the 2007 reforms reforms to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which significantly restructured PBS pricing arrangements, including the impact on government expenditure, consumers, industry, pharmacy, wholesalers and prescribers.

This document, launched by the Australian Health Ministers' Conference in November 2009, is the product of twelve months of development work, including a comprehensive stakeholder consultation process.

This report presents an evidence-based review of the Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN), which was introduced at a time when Australians were facing substantial increases in out-of-pocket costs for their medical services.

The Coordinated Care program was a significant joint initiative of the Australian and state and territory governments which aimed to strengthen primary health care to improve the health and well-being of communities and individuals with chronic and complex care needs. The second round of the Coordinated Care Trials, which operated from 2002 to 2005 and...