Primary Health Care Reform in Australia - Report to Support Australia’s First National Primary Health Care Strategy
Preface
The National Primary Health Care Strategy Report supports the Draft National Primary Health Care Strategy: Building a 21st Century Primary Health Care System.
The Report provides background for the Draft Strategy’s directions as well as providing evidence to support future investment in, and reform of, the primary health care system.
The Report also examines key issues that were raised under the ten individual Elements of the National Primary Health Care Strategy Discussion Paper: Towards a National Primary Health Care Strategy, which was publicly released on 30 October 2008.
The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing received a large number of stakeholder submissions in response to the Discussion Paper. Submissions expressed a range of views on the key issues facing the Australian primary health care system and on possible priority areas for investment and reform.
All stakeholder views were carefully considered in the development of the Draft Strategy and Report.
Submissions have supplemented analyses and research evidence from other sources to create the Draft Strategy and the Report.
