Reforms of care services needed, commission recommends
Australia’s maintenance system, a national screening system for care workers, can see comprehensive reforms that include a major change in cooperation between health services and preventive health investment.
The Productivity Commission published its fifth and last interim report on Wednesday and stated that the revision of the maintenance sector is necessary to increase the efficiency of the country.
Commissioner Alison Roberts said Care is a rapidly growing sector and that proposed reforms will try to break the silent approach to the government’s decision -making process.
The temporary report invites the government to better align quality and safety regulations throughout the maintenance economy by reducing the risk of insecure providers and workers.
This includes an aerodynamic national screen permit for workers in elderly care, NDIs, veterans care and early childhood education and care sectors.
It will facilitate workers to act among the maintenance sectors and reduce the documents of the providers.
“We do not have a combined system, that is, people can pass from the state or the other to the other (labor force) within the industry, and they can avoid detection, Rob said Roberts.
“More surveillance and combined systems will reduce the risk of occurrence.”
The interim report also proposes to establish a national framework to support prevention investments.
This will allow governments to invest in programs that provide long -term benefits to patients and communities.
Terry Slevin, CEO of the Australian Public Health Association, said that the advice has made a prominent defect that prevents prevention investment in the federal budget process.
The authority said that the existing rules did not allow or evaluate financial and productivity benefits beyond the four -year estimation period.
“This means that long -term benefits caused by preventive health measures are excluded from the fact that the government’s decision -making is excluded.
“This is crazy.”
Professor Slevin said that the report recognizes the importance of preventive health, which is an forgotten part of the health financing model.
“Preventing has a tremendous benefit, and of course longer and healthier lives are really key benefits,” he said.
“PC makes us again thinking about how we approach the investment in making our health better instead of correcting us when we make frauds.”
The report also requires integrated and special care through the cooperation that will see that hospital and primary health networks work with community controlled healthcare institutions.
This will promote local autonomy that will improve care quality and reduce potentially prevented hospitalization and other gaps in service delivery.
The Commission estimates that a 10 percent decrease in hospitalized hospitalization can save $ 600 million per year.
Business, union and civil society leaders will meet with experts and government representatives at the three -day economic reform round table meeting that began on August 19th.
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