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The Australian Government is convening the Roundtable to generate fresh ideas and build consensus on reforms across three priority areas for further exploration as part of the Roundtable process:
- Productivity: improve productivity by, for example, cutting red tape without lowering standards, leveraging technology and artificial intelligence
- Economic resilience: build economic resilience in the face of global uncertainty – for example, attracting investment, promoting trade and security supply chains, diversifying our industrial base and building a skilled and adaptable workforce
- Sustainability: strengthen budget sustainability by, for example, options to improve the structural position of the budget and fund high-quality services and priorities.
CHA understands the Roundtable process will be informed by the work the Productivity Commission (PC) is leading through its five productivity inquiries, with the goal of delivering practical and implementable policy ideas across the five pillars by the end of 2025:
- Creating a more dynamic and resilient economy
- Building a skilled and adaptable workforce
- Harnessing data and digital technology
- Delivering quality care more efficiently
- Investing in cheaper, cleaner energy and the net zero transformation.
This submission consolidates CHA’s views on the Australian Government’s proposed approach to Pillar 4: Delivering quality care more efficiently and highlights key proposals for considerations as part of the Roundtable. It also offers broader commentary on how reforms across the health, aged care, and disability sectors can contribute to the government’s overarching objectives of enhancing productivity, strengthening economic resilience, and ensuring long-term fiscal sustainability.
As Australia’s largest non-government network of health, community, and aged care services, Catholic Health Australia (CHA) and its members play a leading role in the care economy. With deep experience across the sector, CHA is well positioned to meaningfully contribute to the current policy reform agenda. This submission reinforces the case for a cohesive, system-wide response that delivers care more efficiently and, most importantly, returns more time to care.
