What do the draft recommendations of the competition policy review mean for health policy and services? THE DRAFT report of the federal government’s competition policy review, released this week for public consultation, is a massive opus, intimidating to all but insiders and the cognoscenti. In its chapter on human services, the review panel, headed by...

This report argues that a new vision for funding health in Australia based on the Singapore model could be achieved by applying the principle of choice for those who wish for an alternative to Australia’s taxpayer-funded, universal health care system. Abstract Singapore’s distinctive health funding and service provision arrangements have delivered comparable First World standards...

Summary: This report presents data on Australia's public sector medical indemnity claims, and public and private sector claims combined, from 2008-09 to 2012-13. The data do not include public sector claims for Western Australia, which did not report its claims data for 2010-11 to 2012-13.

In 2012–13, Australian governments spent $7.2 billion on disability support services under the National Disability Agreement. More than 312,500 people used services during this time.

Over the last 12 months the MHCA’s collaborative work with the mental health sector has highlighted the significant concerns consistently raised by mental health consumers, carers and service providers about the design and implementation of the NDIS, and the implications these may have for service access, quality and financial sustainability. These concerns are described in...