Submissions

2nd Oct 2014

Senate Select Committee on Health

First published: Thursday, October 2, 2014

From a patient perspective we don’t have a health system. The nightmare for patients consists of multiple poorly connected pieces: the public hospital system, the publicly subsidised private hospital system, the GP system, the publicly subsidised private specialist system, the community care system, the publicly funded private allied health system, the mental health system, the private dental system, the publicly funded private dental system, the public dental system, the Aged Care system, and a myriad of other pieces.

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14th May 2015

Senate Inquiry into Copayments/Out of Pocket Costs

First published: Sunday, May 11, 2014

18th Jul 2013

Senate: PHI Amendment (GP services)

First published: Thursday, July 18, 2013

4th Nov 2014

Social Determinants of Health: Senate Inquiry

By: Dr Tim Woodruff

First published: Thursday, October 4, 2012

Submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee on

Australia’s domestic response to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health report “Closing the gap within a generation”.

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