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Comprehensive Primary Health Care Centres
The following articles have the tag Comprehensive Primary Health Care Centres
Health reform blueprint undervalues GP care: Kidd
LEADING GP Professor Michael Kidd has publicly criticised the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s (NHHRC) final report, which he says risks disenfranchising GPs by underplaying the vital contribution they make. Writing in the MJA , Professor Kidd, former RACGP president and now executive dean of Flinders University’s faculty of health sciences, said he was disappointed by the report’s “lack of specific focus... on the role of the GP in leading the primary care team”, adding that it was “surprisingly light on detail and on evidence to support many of the recommendations affecting general practice”. He ...
$1m clinic grants unattractive: Primary boss
MILLION-dollar government grants to establish or expand virtual or physical multipurpose medical centres are unlikely to entice corporate practice operators, according to Primary Health Care managing director Dr Edmund Bateman. Responding to early reports on the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) proposal to expand the super clinics concept and set up comprehensive primary healthcare centres, Dr Bateman told MO that the super clinic model had already proven infrastructure grants alone were not the answer to creating sustainable health services. “A million-dollar grant would not pay the deposit on what we do in our ...
One-stop shop plan ‘superior to’ super clinics
A PROPOSAL to set up nationwide Comprehensive Primary Health Care Centres has received a far warmer welcome from doctors’ groups than the Federal Government’s controversial super clinics policy. The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) plan to establish a network of virtual or physical one-stop shops providing a range of patient services is a better investment, according to GP experts. The proposal would see 300 centres created at a cost of $1 million each, and has been welcomed by GPs as a means of linking and investing in existing services. Such a network would give 25% ...
Cracks identified in health overhaul plan
GPs are bracing themselves for a radical overhaul of the primary care sector, with the Government now considering bold and wide-reaching reforms set to fundamentally transform the Australian health system. Doctors and academics have criticised the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s (NHHRC) final report, however its architect Dr Christine Bennett has challenged GPs to step up and make the reforms their own. As expected, primary healthcare reform features heavily in the 123 recommendations. At the top of the list is a Commonwealth takeover of all primary healthcare services, including family and children, drug and alcohol, ...