State Orange Book 2018: Policy priorities for states and territories
REPORTby John Daley, Stephen Duckett, Peter Goss, Marion Terrill, Danielle Wood, Tony Wood AM and Brendan Coates
State and territory governments can do more to improve the lives of Australians. In many cases, states are different because their governments adopted better policies. Every state should learn from the others and do better.
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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 Science.
Information about Stephen Duckett’s academic publications are available on Google Scholar.
Program Topics
Reports
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28 October 2018
State Orange Book 2018: Policy priorities for states and territories -
19 August 2018
Safer care saves money: How to improve patient care and save public money at the same time -
29 July 2018
Mapping primary care in Australia -
4 February 2018
All complications should count: Using our data to make hospitals safer -
7 November 2017
Strengthening safety statistics: How to make hospital safety data more useful
News & Opinion
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14 December 2018
Morrison’s health handout is bad policy (but might be good politics) -
29 November 2018
How the states can keep people out of hospital and still get their fair share of funding -
11 November 2018
The tooth hurts but Victoria’s public dental system is broken -
7 November 2018
What can we learn from Australia’s My Health Record experience? -
30 October 2018
Waiting for better care
Speeches & Events
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13 November 2018
State Orange Book 2018: Policy priorities for states and territories – Melbourne -
07 August 2018
Primary Care in Australia: the state of play – Melbourne -
04 July 2018
Safer care saves money – Brisbane -
17 April 2018
Safer care saves money – Melbourne -
15 August 2017
Safety and Quality – time to stop just goggling at the problems our data reveals – Melbourne