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Health, Ageing and Community Services—Standing Committee
Report 5
MS CODY (Murrumbidgee) (10.15): I present the following report:
Health, Ageing and Community Services—Standing Committee—Report 5—Inquiry into the Future Sustainability of Health Funding in the ACT, dated 11 December 2018, together with a copy of the extracts of the relevant minutes of proceedings.
I move:
That the report be noted.
On 14 December 2018 the Standing Committee on Health, Ageing and Community Services tabled its fifth report for the Ninth Assembly. As 14 December was not a sitting day, the committee is today presenting its report to the Assembly. This report presents the committee’s findings from its inquiry into the future sustainability of health funding in the ACT, which was self-referred in November 2017.
Following the self-referral of this inquiry, the committee adopted comprehensive terms of reference, which included examination of the following matters: the efficiency of current health financing; the nature of health funding; the sources and interactions of health financing; the population, demographic and technological impacts on health financing; the relationship between hospital financing and primary, secondary and community care; the funding of future capital needs; and relevant experiences and learnings from other jurisdictions.
The committee received 17 written submissions from a range of peak bodies and organisations, as well as the ACT government. In addition to the evidence provided in submissions, the committee considered evidence presented by other jurisdictions, relevant literature, and data provided by ACT Health, the Productivity Commission, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The committee resolved to report to the Assembly on matters discussed in submissions and evidence presented through research, as well as results from the committee’s deliberations. The committee made 13 recommendations relating to preventative health, primary and community health services, digital health, patient-focused health services and value-based health care.
The committee acknowledges that the ACT is not the only jurisdiction that has identified that the continued health expenditure growth is unsustainable. The committee further acknowledges the importance of ensuring that the future trajectory of health funding remains sustainable while maintaining high quality services and good health outcomes for the ACT community.
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