Planning for ABF as part of reforming the Australian healthcare system
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Introduction A key part of Australia’s national health reform policy is to implement activity-based funding (ABF) for public hospitals from 1st July 2012. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) established the Health Reform Implementation Group (HRIG) to oversee the execution of the reforms. HRIG, in turn, created an ABF Sub Group to advise on implementing ABF. The HRIG ABF Sub Group established five Advisory Working Groups (AWGs) aligned to the following workstreams: subacute, emergency, non-admitted, and mental health care. As well, the groups were aligned to the National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC). The terms of reference for the AWGs included “the development of a work plan for the implementation of ABF”, which will contribute to an “overall national work plan to implement ABF”.
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