The Federal Government released the Final Report for the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission entitled: A healthier future for all Australians. The themes of the recommendations of this report are as follows:

Taking Responsibility • Building good health and wellbeing into our communities and our lives

Connecting Care - Comprehensive care for people over their lifetime • Creating strong primary health care services for everyone • Nurturing a healthy start • Ensuring timely access and safe care in hospitals • Restoring people to better health and independent livingS • Increasing choice in aged care • Caring for people at the end of life

Facing Inequities - Recognise and tackle the causes and impacts of health inequities • Closing the health gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples • Delivering better health outcomes for remote and rural communities • Supporting people living with mental illness • Improving oral health and access to dental care

Driving Quality Performance - Leadership and systems to achieve best use of people, resources and evolving knowledge • Strengthening the governance of health and health care • Raising and spending money for health services • Working for us: a sustainable health workforce for the future • Fostering continuous learning in our health system • Implementing a national e-health system

To access the full report and the summary go to the following link:

http://www.nhhrc.org.au/internet/nhhrc/publishing.nsf/Content/nhhrc-report