The paper identifies five pillars for health reform with associated policy costings and timeframes. It calls for immediate action to modernise Medicare and to lift public hospitals out of logjam. It also seeks commitments to address growing threats to private health sector sustainability and calls for the implementation of a sugar tax.

The report provides early insights into the operations of the Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (UCCs) pilot program, based on program implementation from 30 June 2023 to 30 September 2024. It found that 46% of patients would have sought care at an emergency department if the Medicare UCC was unavailable. The report identifies 14 improvement opportunities.

This impact assessment will be used to inform Government's consideration of options to further strengthen Medicare through bulk billing for all Australians. The objectives of the Government’s proposed intervention are to: support GPs and GP Practices to provide bulk billed care; reinforce primary care as the first point of contact within the health system; and...

Australia is not generating enough general practitioners (GPs) to meet community need now and into the future. This impact analysis examines options for Australian Government action to grow Australia’s GP workforce to better meet community need. It explores the status quo (continuing existing investment in programs) as well as three packages of policy options.

Primary Health Networks (PHNs) coordinated and commissioned place-based primary health care services to address their region’s local identified health needs. This report looks at the performance and outcomes of the PHN program. The COVID-19 pandemic continued to disrupt the primary health care system from the previous year, including delivery of the PHN program and its...