This publication provides an analysis of the dental visiting patterns of children aged 5 to 17 years during the period 1994 to 2005. From 1994 to 2005 approximately 80 per cent of children aged 5-11 years and 75% of children aged 12-17 years visited a dentist within the previous 12 months. Private dental attendance by...

This background note provides an overview of rises in private health insurance premiums in recent years, outlines possible reasons for these increases and for variations among individual funds, and outlines recent changes to the regulation of private health insurance. Each year the Health Minister announces the average increase for health insurance premiums following the Government’s...

This report makes a number of recommendations to the Australian Health Workforce Ministerial Council in relation to the the proposed national registration and accreditation scheme. It includes a minority report by the Coalition senators and additional comments by the Greens senator.

This paper gives background information on the scheme, which provides a means for raising concerns about a service or the care being provided to elderly people receiving Australian government-subsidised aged care. The Australian Government has engaged Associate Professor Merrilyn Walton to conduct a review of the operation of the Aged Care Complaints Investigation Scheme. The...

The three-hundred page reform ‘blue print’ from the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission has endorsed a range of health reform measures that will not solve the hospital crisis in this country, argues Jeremy Sammut. Executive Summary Beside the perennial and serious problem of ever-lengthening waiting lists for elective surgery, major public hospitals are unable...