This Evidence Brief from the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association’s (AHHA) Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research and Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) provides recommendations for health service providers including hospitals and Primary Health Networks (PHNs) to increase the role of consumers in designing healthcare services. The brief was authored by Rebecca Randall (CHF)...

Reports on the findings of comparative research conducted in England and NZ to explore relative levels of autonomy and capacity for primary health care policymaking in the two countries between 2001 and 2007

In Australia we are faced with a complex health system with entrenched practices, multiple layers and stakeholders divided across federal and state systems, which is also often hard to navigate for both patient and provider. The question we must address is how do we ensure the Health Care Home can reach its potential in Australia...

This report provides up-to-date and comprehensive data on the quality of maternal health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from ninety-one primary care health centres across Australia. The health centres include community-controlled and government managed health services in different Australian jurisdictions. Teams in these health centres conducted audits of pregnancy and post-natal care...

Hospitalisation rates for diabetes, tooth decay and other conditions that should be treatable or manageable out of hospital show how Australia’s health system is consistently failing some communities. Places such as Frankston and Broadmeadows in Victoria and Mount Isa and Palm Island in Queensland have had potentially preventable hospitalisation rates at least fifty percent above...