This fact sheet highlights primary health care as vital in preventing, identifying and managing health in local populations to keep people out of hospital emergency departments and in-patient beds. It presents information on potentially preventable hospitalisations and lower-urgency presentations to emergency departments, and includes both community and professional perspectives.

The Inquiry found that addressing the social and economic impacts of pandemics requires policies that promote equity and protect the vulnerable, and recommends restructuring governance so a central agency can coordinate future pandemic preparedness. Based on its analysis, the report offers 39 recommendations to strengthen pandemic preparedness.

This health needs assessment highlights multiple and complex priorities for Gippsland’s health system in Victoria, informed both by the community and an advisory panel. It provides health insights for each priority area accompanied by actions.

This report analyses trends in sexual and reproductive health service seeking across Victoria with a focus on abortion and long-acting reversible contraception (LARC). It reveals major ongoing inequities in abortion and contraception access, disproportionately affecting disadvantaged communities in some regional areas. Detailed recommendations are provided to inform needs-based health policy and service provision and planning.

Fraud and corruption undermine the integrity of and public trust in government, including by reducing funds available for government program delivery and causing financial and reputational damage to defrauded entities. This audit examines fraud controls arrangements in the Department of Health and Aged Care, using the Indigenous Australians’ Health Programme as a case study of...