Specialist affordability: COPS calls for evidence-based reform

COPS banner on specialist affordability reform, with an illustrative doctor and patient consultation.
COPS supports affordable specialist care and action against exploitation, but questions whether proposed fee interventions are supported by sufficient evidence. Its submission calls for detailed analysis, fair peer review, clearer financial consent and expanded public outpatient services.
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Improving access to specialist care: three perspectives on the reforms Australia needs

COPS feature banner on improving access to specialist care, showing two clinicians outside an operating theatre.
Three submissions to the specialist access and affordability inquiry offer distinct perspectives on public hospital capacity, the cost of providing care and the patient journey. COPS examines each organisation’s recommendations and how they contribute to a coordinated approach to reform.
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Ensuring separation between health insurers, hospitals and medical services is key to protecting Australia’s balanced public/private health system

‘The best thing the Federal Health Minister can do to preserve the advantages of Australia’sbalanced public/private healthcare system is to ensure that health insurance, private hospitalsand medical services are kept separate and free from conflicts of interest’, Mr Stephen Milgate,CEO of the Council of Procedural Specialists, said today. Allowing any corporation to provide health insurance
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AIGW – Hospital’s at a Glance 2024

AIGW Hospital's at a Glance 2024
Hospitals play an important role in Australia’s health care system, providing care to millions of Australians each year. Services are provided both to admitted patients and non-admitted patients (through outpatient clinics and emergency departments).  Australia has public and private hospitals. Public hospitals are largely owned and managed by state and territory governments, with funding also
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Growth of Bureaucracy in the British National Health Service

Dr Max Gammon MB BS prepared a paper on the Growth of Bureaucracy in the British National Health Service. Here we have a summary and a copy of the full paper.
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Vale John Allan Buntine – MMBS FRACS

Vale John Allan Buntine a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in early 1962 is survived by his wife Norma, their 3 sons
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APF: Too late? The new normal, State government slurps up all patient information

The Victorian government acts in haste to pass health database law, the community will repent at leisure. The Victorian government’s “Health Legislation Amendment (Information Sharing) Bill 2021” was hurried through its first Parliamentary vote last week.1 The Bill links all patient medical and health information through a single portal, to be shared between authorised end-users,
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Managed Care In the USA – a doctor’s experience

Have a look at Dr Brown's presentation on Managed Care in the USA - a doctor's experience. For more information about preventing US Managed Health Care in Australia visit https://www.sendtheeaglehome.com.au/
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COPS Final Submission to Honeysuckle Health application

Attached is the COPS/ASOS submission to the ACCC draft determination.
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Experience of Managed Care in the US

This is an interview between Dr Suzi Nou, President of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists and Dr Carmen V Brown FACOG, FRANZCOG who practises as an O&G in the Victorian public hospital system. In this podcast is an authentic, unscripted eyewitness account of managed care in action and why we believe it should be opposed
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