Catholic Health Australia's response to the new VET Student Loan proposals and the impact such changes will have on Catholic Health, Aged and Community Care services in Australia. CHA aims to ensure sustainable, high quality healthcare in Australia - something that commences with effective, high quality entry level healthcare education programs.

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Catholic Health Australia's response to the Preliminary Findings Report of the Productivity Commission’s Introducing Competition and Informed User Choice in Human Services: Identifying Sectors for Reform.

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Catholic Health Australia's submission to the Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation Review.

The submission outlines recommendations for changes to current regulation and remuneration arrangements to allow hospital pharmacies to deliver care that is appropriate to and consistent with the clinical complexity of consumers that are treated in a hospital setting.

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Catholic Health Australia's submission to the Senate Standing Commitees on Ecnomics in response to the Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 makes recommendations with respect to Schdule 7 - Abolishing the Naitonal Health Performance Authority, Schedule 8 - Aged Care and Schedule 20 - Psychiatric Confinement.

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Catholic Health Australia's submission to the Productivity Commission's public inquiry into the increased application of competition, contestability and informed user choice to human services. Catholic Health Australia is strongly of the view that both hospitals and aged care are services where greater competition and consumer choice and control has the potential to significantly benefit consumers and taxpayers. This submission separately addresses issues relating to both hospital and aged care services.

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Catholic Health Australia (CHA) is pleased to make a submission in response to Position Paper 'Simplifying medical treatment decision making and advance care planning" released by the Department of Health and Human Services for feedback.

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Catholic Health Australia (CHA) has identified evidence-based holistic models of care for end-of-life and chronic disease, including mental health, as major gaps in Australia’s health system. To deliver this, structural reform through embedding research into health service delivery must be supported. Although a key recommendation of the Strategic Review of Health and Medical Research (the McKeon review), this has largely not happened. Health service research underpins our ability to identify unwarranted variation in the quality, efficacy and efficiency of healthcare delivery as well as to ensure that scarce resources are optimally allocated. A self-learning/improving healthcare system can only be delivered through investment in people dedicated to this task using key infrastructure including clinical registries and clinical trial capabilities.

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