This analysis was developed to provide a detailed picture of the current availability of residential aged care in Western Australia (WA) and the challenges associated with meeting future demand. It includes demographic analysis to identify pressure points in the market and explores whether there are reasons why supply has not kept pace with demand.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), when scaled responsibly, holds significant potential for healthcare systems. Yet significant barriers to its adoption remain, including fragmented data foundations, regulatory uncertainty, and gaps in governance and workforce capacity. To help support actions toward the responsible scale of AI in health, a policy checklist was developed to guide decision making and prioritisation.

The framework sets Australia’s long term plan to prevent and manage chronic illness. It guides governments, health services and communities to work together, focusing on prevention, integrated care, equity and shared risk factors. The framework moves away from treating diseases in isolation and instead focuses on related chronic conditions and shared risk factors.

Winter 2025 was one of the toughest for Western Australia’s health system. Learning from this experience, this strategy sets out how WA Health is preparing for higher demand on health services during winter. It explains what WA health is doing to ensure people get the care they need, in the safest and most appropriate setting.

Australia's mental health system is failing those most in need – not because of neglect or underfunding, but because of overdiagnosis and misallocation, this report warns. The report shows that programs designed to expand access to care have created a system that treats ordinary distress as pathology. It calls for reform built on five key...