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Health
- Position consumers at the centre of the health system.
- Empower consumers to proactively drive their treatment, including self-management and remote monitoring, by giving them greater access to technology and information.
- Focus on preventing chronic disease and achieving healthier lifestyles.
- Better coordinate and improve the quality of care for people with chronic diseases, helping them to navigate through a range of primary health services.
- Retain the Medicare system and retain the current case-mix funding model.
- Increase the role of our community-rated private insurance to provide more choice, and more affordable and efficient services for policy holders, as well as taking the pressure off the public system.
- Retain the private health insurance rebate to consumers who take out insurance.
- Increase collaboration, connectivity and interoperability within different parts of the health sector.
- Embrace advances in digital health such as expanding low-cost telehealth technologies, encouraging use of public-sector data sets, and automating administrative tasks.
- Strengthen the links between the acute system and aged care.
- Improve access to primary health care, especially out of hours and in rural and remote areas.
- Reduce wasteful spending, inefficiency and duplication.
- Address skills shortages, particularly in regional and rural areas.
- Unshackle Australia’s health system to enable it to be a powerhouse exporter, particularly in goods and services, devices and diagnostics.
- Encourage employers to promote a mentally healthy workplace, starting by reducing stigma and providing access to support and advice for all staff.
- Create a culture of disclosure where people feel safe to discuss their mental health.
- Design jobs and workplaces that can be more responsive to the reality of living with, or caring for, someone living with a mental illness.
- Eradicate workplace bullying.
Businesses can find resources from the ‘Heads Up’ initiative website.
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