According to the NHHRC, the most important health reform recommendations in the Bennett Report will make the health system person-centred by reorienting the system around stronger primary care. This will supposedly allow health consumers to have access to the services they need rather than only have access to the current mix of ‘hospital-centric’ health services that governments want to offer.
The front pages of our newspapers have been plastered with the ETS and the internal ructions of the Liberal party all week, so you could be forgiven if you didn’t notice the Rudd Government’s announcement of arguably the most significant social policy reform of its time in office.
BBC news this morning (Wednesday 25/11/2009):