Reforming aged care: a practical plan for a rights-based system
REPORTby Stephen Duckett, Anika Stobart and Hal Swerissen
Australia needs a new aged care system. Spending an extra $7 billion a year could provide all older Australians with the support they need.
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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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29 November 2020
Reforming aged care: a practical plan for a rights-based system -
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
News & Opinion
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30 November 2020
A new governance approach to aged care -
29 November 2020
Three ways to transform our Soviet-style aged care mess -
29 November 2020
Better aged care through individual service agreements -
19 November 2020
More expensive but less effective: the US healthcare system explained -
16 November 2020
The COVID crisis must prompt governments to reset their health systems
Podcasts
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30 November 2020
Reforming aged care: a practical plan for a rights-based system – Podcast -
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
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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26 November 2020
Charting the long fight against COVID-19 -
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
Events
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27 November 2020
Rethinking Aged Care – Webinar Event -
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