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National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission Interim Report

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A Healthier Future for all Australians The interim report from the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission provides 116 recommendations recommendations to improve Australia's health care system. These recommendations make suggestions which include issues of governance of the health system, primary health care, prevention, Indigenous health, hospitals, aged care, workforce, mental health, and rural health.

The report is structured as follows

Taking Responsibility

1. Building good health and wellbeing into our communities and our lives

Connecting Care

2. Creating strong primary health care services for everyone 3. Nurturing a healthy start to life 4. Ensuring timely access and safe care in hospitals 5. Restoring people to better health and independent living 6. Increasing choice in aged care 7. Caring for people at the end of life

Facing Inequities

8. Closing the health gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 9. Delivering better health outcomes for remote and rural communities 10. Supporting people living with mental illness 11. Improving oral health and access to dental care

Driving Quality Performance

12. Strengthening the governance of health and health care 13. Raising and spending money for health services 14. Working for us: a sustainable health workforce for the future 15. Fostering continuous learning in our health system

To access the full report go to the following link: Interim Report of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission - A Healthier Future for all Australians