Ten clinician-driven strategies for maximising value of Australian health care

Ten clinician-driven strategies for maximising value of Australian health care.

OBJECTIVE To articulate the concept of high-value care (i.e. clinically relevant, patient-important benefit at lowest possible cost) and suggest strategies by which clinicians can promote such care in rendering the Australian healthcare system more affordable and sustainable. METHODS Strategies were developed by the author based on personal experience in clinical practice, evidence-based medi...

The value of clinical ethics support in Australian health care.

Professional practice in health care inevitably involves difficult ethical considerations that are often embedded in universal events: birth, periods of ill health, and death. Clinicians may be unsure in these situations about what exactly they should do. In light of this circumstance, ethics should no longer be an implicit component of Australian health care, but instead be explicitly recognis...

Maximising Shareholder Value

Remote Hospital Reform in the Context of Australian Health Care Reforms

Public hospitals play an important role in the delivery of essential healthcare in Australia as in many countries. The Australian Government has in the recent years implemented national healthcare reform to improve the performance of and access to public hospital services. This reform extends to all public hospitals including remote hospitals. However, there is limited information on how reform...

Ten ideas for building a strong Australian rural health system.

This commentary was written to generate ideas and provoke debate about priorities for rural health, in advance of the Australian National Rural Health Alliance 2009 conference. The conference will doubtless be packed with highlights as together we reflect on 20 years’ successes and failures in the rural and remote health sector under the conference theme: ‘ celebrating the sector’. Another key ...