Rethinking aged care: emphasising the rights of older Australians
REPORTAustralia’s aged care system is failing older Australians and their families and needs to be comprehensively overhauled.
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Health Program Director
Stephen DuckettDr Stephen Duckett has held top operational and policy leadership positions in health care in Australia and Canada, including as Secretary of what is now the Commonwealth Department of Health. He has a reputation for creativity, evidence-based innovation and reform in areas ranging from the introduction of activity-based funding for hospitals to new systems of accountability for the safety of hospital care. An economist, he is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
Information about Stephen Duckett’s academic publications are available on Google Scholar.
Program Topics
Reports
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4 October 2020
Rethinking aged care: emphasising the rights of older Australians -
3 September 2020
Go for zero: How Australia can get to zero COVID-19 cases -
28 June 2020
The Recovery Book: what Australian governments should do now -
21 June 2020
Coming out of COVID-19 lockdown: the next steps for Australian health care -
3 December 2019
Saving private health 2: Making private health insurance viable
News & Opinion
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26 October 2020
At zero new cases, Victoria is on top of the world -
15 October 2020
The Aged Care Royal Commission has squibbed it on COVID -
13 October 2020
Unfair and inefficient: how Australia funds residential aged care -
9 October 2020
Budget 2020 didn’t do enough to fix aged care -
7 October 2020
Budget 2020: big health problems lead to big health spending
Podcasts
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9 October 2020
Hard hat or hard-hit? Evaluating the 2020 Federal Budget – Podcast -
5 October 2020
Rethinking aged care: emphasising the rights of older Australians – Podcast -
7 September 2020
Go for Zero: How Australia can get to zero COVID-19 cases -
22 June 2020
How our health system can be better after the pandemic – Webinar recording
Submissions
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12 October 2020
Australia needs to rethink capital financing of residential aged care -
18 September 2020
Lessons from Victoria’s COVID-19 failures -
16 June 2020
The consequences of private involvement in healthcare -
1 May 2020
Learning the lessons from the 2019-20 bushfires
Presentations
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28 April 2020
The role of boards during the pandemic -
4 December 2019
Saving private health -
22 October 2019
Remembering Richard Scotton, co-founder of Medicare -
6 August 2019
Prosthesis pricing needs fundamental reform
Events
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06 July 2020
How Australia can recover from the COVID-19 crisis – Webinar event -
10 June 2020
Webinar Event: How our health system can be better after the pandemic -
27 March 2020
The economic, budgetary and health impacts of COVID-19: webinar -
25 November 2019
Can private health insurance be saved from the jaws of death? – Canberra -
16 July 2019
Private health insurance under challenge – Melbourne