National Health and Hospitals Network

The Australian Department of Health and Ageing has released the implementation plan of its health reform package. A National Health and Hospitals Network for Australia’s Future – Delivering the Reforms provides details of implementation activities over the coming months and years, including timelines and major milestones to implement the major health reform agreed by COAG in April 2010.

Just to remind you, the Government has undertaken to create a single national unified health system which is "nationally funded and locally run to ensure all Australians have access to affordable and high quality health care. The Commonwealth will become the dominant funder of hospital services and have full policy and funding responsibility for general practice, primary health care and aged care."