Policies we work on
Our policies inform how we address long-standing and emerging priorities including:
- funding Australia’s health systems, such as Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
- public health programs, such as cancer screening, immunisation, and preventing chronic disease
- primary health care services
- mental health services
- funding Australia’s hospitals
- shaping, distributing and managing our health and aged care workforce
- providing health services for different groups of people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- promoting best practice health care across a broad range of needs
- ensuring therapeutic goods and medical devices are safe and effective
- responding to health emergencies
- funding health, medical and disability research and other activities
- working with stakeholders such as health professional and consumer groups to improve the health system
- improving the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
- empowering and supporting people with disability and carers
- funding, regulating and overseeing ageing and aged care activities
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