National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission – Submissions Received
The Commission made a public call for submissions, advertised nationally over two weekends in early April, with submissions due by 30 May 2008. Since then the Commission has received well over 400 submissions from interested individuals and organisations.
The call for submissions is a part of the Commission’s wider program of engagement and consultation.
The Commission is currently reading and analysing these submissions, to inform the development of its interim report to Minister for Health the Hon Nicola Roxon MHR, due towards the end of 2008.
Although the call for submissions is now closed, anyone wishing to make comments to the Commission or provide feedback may still do so:
By email to talkhealth@nhhrc.org.au
By mail to: PO Box 685 Woden ACT 2606
By phone to: 1800 017 533
By facsimile to: 02 6262 7264
List of Submissions Received
A list of submissions received appears below. The Commission will also be publishing submissions made to it. It is expected that these will be progressively made available on this web site in July.List of Submissions Received as at 30 June 2008 (PDF 69 KB)
| Listing as at 30 June | |
| Name of Organisation or Individual | Category |
| 13CABS | Organisation |
| A Kiss from an Angel | Organisation |
| Abatement Tech Australia | Organisation |
| Accenture | Organisation |
| ACT Council of Social Services | Organisation |
| ACT Health | Organisation |
| Adrienne Freeman (Dr) | Individual |
| Adrienne Lee | Individual |
| Aged and Community Services Australia | Organisation |
| Aged Care Association Australia | Organisation |
| Aged Care Early Intervention Management | Organisation |
| Alan Churchill | Individual |
| Alex Tahmindjis | Individual |
| Alison Bleaney | Individual |
| Alzheimer’s Australia | Organisation |
| Andrea Codega | Individual |
| Andrea Harcourt (Ms) | Individual |
| Andrew Francis | Individual |
| Andrew McDonnell | Individual |
| Anna Howe | Individual |
| ANU Unit of General Practice & Community Health | Organisation |
| Ashley Mackinnon | Individual |
| Assoc Prof Roger Gurr | Individual |
| Assoc Prof Tom Brett | Individual |
| Association for the Promotion of Oral Health | Organisation |
| Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes | Organisation |
| Audrey Robb | Individual |
| Australasia Faculty of Rehab Medicine | Organisation |
| Australasian College for Emergency Medicine | Organisation |
| Australasian College of Podiatric Surgeons | Organisation |
| Australasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre | Organisation |
| Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists | Organisation |
| Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine | Organisation |
| Australian Association for Humane Research Inc | Organisation |
| Australian Association of Medical Recruitment Agencies | Organisation |
| Australian Association of Occupational Therapists | Organisation |
| Australian Association of Pathology Practices | Organisation |
| Australian Association of Social workers | Organisation |
| Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) | Organisation |
| Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association | Organisation |
| Australian College of Ambulance Professionals | Organisation |
| Australian College of Health Informatics | Organisation |
| Australian College of Midwives | Organisation |
| Australian College of non Vocationally Registered GPs | Organisation |
| Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare | Organisation |
| Australian Council of Paramedicine | Organisation |
| Australian Council of Pro Vice Chancellors and Deans of Health Sciences | Organisation |
| Australian Council on Healthcare Standards | Organisation |
| Australian Council on Smoking and Health | Organisation |
| Australian Dental Association Inc | Organisation |
| Australian Diabetics Educators Association | Organisation |
| Australian Diagnostic Imaging Association | Organisation |
| Australian Faith Community Nurses Association | Organisation |
| Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations Inc | Organisation |
| Australian General Practice Network | Organisation |
| Australian Health Care Reform Alliance | Organisation |
| Australian Health Professionals Council | Organisation |
| Australian Health Workforce Institute | Organisation |
| Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association | Organisation |
| Australian Institute for Primary Care | Organisation |
| Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) | Organisation |
| Australian Lung Foundation | Organisation |
| Australian Medical Association | Organisation |
| Australian Medical Association Council of Doctors in Training | Organisation |
| Australian Medical Council | Organisation |
| Australian Mental Health Consumer Network | Organisation |
| Australian Nurse Practitioners Association | Organisation |
| Australian Nursing Federation | Organisation |
| Australian Peak Nursing & Midwifery Forum (APNMF) | Organisation |
| Australian Physiotherapy Association | Organisation |
| Australian Podiatry Association QLD | Organisation |
| Australian Practice Nurses Association | Organisation |
| Australian Private Hospitals Association (APHA) | Organisation |
| Australian Psychological Society | Organisation |
| Australian Rural Education Network | Organisation |
| Australian Salaried Medical Officers Foundation | Organisation |
| Australian Therapeutics Advisory Groups | Organisation |
| Australian Unity | Organisation |
| Australian Women's Health Network | Organisation |
| Baker Heart Research Institute | Organisation |
| Barbara Hayes (Dr) | Individual |
| Barbara Reynolds-Hutchinson | Individual |
| Barbara Switzer | Individual |
| Bell Street Clinic | Organisation |
| Bio21 Cluster | Organisation |
| Blackmores Ltd | Organisation |
| Box Hill Institute | Organisation |
| Breast Cancer Network Australia | Organisation |
| Brisbane South DGP | Organisation |
| Brotherhood of St Laurence | Organisation |
| Bruce Hinckfuss | Individual |
| Bunbury Wellington Economic Alliance | Organisation |
| Business Council of Australia | Organisation |
| Caesarean Awareness Network Australia | Organisation |
| Cancer Council (NSW) - Advocacy Development and Networks Officer | Organisation |
| Cancer Council Australia | Organisation |
| Cancer Voices Australia | Organisation |
| Cancer Voices NSW | Organisation |
| Cancer Voices Victoria | Organisation |
| Cancer Voices WA | Organisation |
| Carers Australia | Organisation |
| Carol O'Donnell | Individual |
| CASE Health | Organisation |
| Catherine Crock (Dr) | Individual |
| Catherine Taylor | Individual |
| Catholic Health Australia | Organisation |
| Catholic Healthcare Ltd | Organisation |
| Centre for Health Services Development | Organisation |
| Centre for Military and Veterans' Health | Organisation |
| Centre for Policy Development | Organisation |
| Cerner Corporation | Organisation |
| Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA | Organisation |
| Chief Executive Forum | Organisation |
| Children's Hospitals of Australasia | Organisation |
| Chiropractors' Association of Australia | Organisation |
| CHOICE | Organisation |
| Chris Ansted | Individual |
| Christina Drummond (Dr) | Individual |
| Christina Dwyer | Individual |
| Christine Hunt | Individual |
| Christopher McGowan | Individual |
| Cisco Systems | Organisation |
| Clare Skinner (Dr) | Individual |
| Cobram District Hospital | Organisation |
| Cochrane Consumer Network in Australia | Organisation |
| Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group | Organisation |
| College of Nursing | Organisation |
| Community and Primary Care Partnerships | Organisation |
| Compact Business Systems | Organisation |
| Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia | Organisation |
| Complementary Medicines Association | Organisation |
| Confederation of Postgraduate Medical Education Councils | Organisation |
| Council of Ambulance Authorities | Organisation |
| Council of Clinical Hypnotherapists | Organisation |
| Council of Deans of Nursing and Midwifery | Organisation |
| Council of Remote Area Nurses of Australia (CRANA) | Organisation |
| Craig Ingham MP | Individual |
| CRC for Spatial Information | Organisation |
| Cystic Fibrosis Australia | Organisation |
| Damian Burns (Dr) | Individual |
| Danny Samson (Prof) | Individual |
| David Burke (Dr) | Individual |
| David Dunt (Assoc Prof) | Individual |
| David Karr | Individual |
| David Lawrence | Individual |
| David Pennington, Chair Bio21cluster | Organisation |
| Dawn Coombridge | Individual |
| Defence Health Services Division - Department of Defence | Organisation |
| Deluane Pollard | Individual |
| Department for Planning and Infrastructure (WA) | Organisation |
| Diabetes Australia | Organisation |
| Dieticians Association of Australia | Organisation |
| Doctors Reform Society | Organisation |
| Dominique Griffiths | Individual |
| Don Howe | Individual |
| Douglas Everingham | Individual |
| Doutta Gala Community Health | Organisation |
| E D Parr (Mr) | Individual |
| Eddie Price (Dr) | Individual |
| Edmund O'Shea | Individual |
| Edwin Brooks | Individual |
| Engineers Australia | Organisation |
| Faculty of Medicine - Uni of Melbourne | Organisation |
| Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences - Monash University | Organisation |
| Fernando Blander | Individual |
| Fitness Australia | Organisation |
| FORTUS | Organisation |
| Friends of Nerigah | Organisation |
| Gavin Mooney (Prof) | Individual |
| Geetha Ranmulthugala (Dr- UC) | Individual |
| General Practice Education and Training Limited | Organisation |
| General Practice Victoria | Organisation |
| Genetic Support Network Victoria | Organisation |
| Gold Coast Institute of Mental Health | Organisation |
| Gold Coast Medical Association | Organisation |
| Grace Daley | Individual |
| Graeme Harrison | Individual |
| Graham Gorrel (Mr) | Individual |
| Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce in Sydney | Organisation |
| Hal Kendig (Prof) | Individual |
| Hatrix | Organisation |
| Headspace | Organisation |
| Health Care Consumers Association of ACT | Organisation |
| Health Coaching Australia | Organisation |
| Health Consumers Alliance of SA | Organisation |
| Health Consumers Council | Organisation |
| Health Consumers of Rural and Remote Australia | Organisation |
| Health Informatics Society of Australia | Organisation |
| Health Insurance Restricted Membership Association of Australia | Organisation |
| Health Research Services of Australia and New Zealand | Organisation |
| Health Services Association of NSW | Organisation |
| Healthcare Chaplaincy Council of Victoria | Organisation |
| Healthcare Villages | Organisation |
| Healthscope Ltd | Organisation |
| Hospira Asia Pacific - dose error reduction | Organisation |
| Hospira Asia Pacific - productivity | Organisation |
| Hospital in the Home Australia | Organisation |
| Hospital in the Home Society NSW | Organisation |
| Human Genetics Society of Australasia | Organisation |
| Ian Bell (Mr) | Individual |
| Ian Carter (Mr) | Individual |
| Ian Conomos | Individual |
| Ian McAuley (Mr) | Individual |
| Ian Smith (Dr) | Individual |
| Ian Turnbull (Dr) | Individual |
| IBM Australia | Organisation |
| I-MED Network | Organisation |
| Improvement Foundation Australia | Organisation |
| Inner East Primary Care Partnership Victoria | Organisation |
| Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand | Organisation |
| Jan Price | Individual |
| Jane Cowan | Individual |
| Jane Dooley | Individual |
| Janine Nottingham | Individual |
| Jeannie McMullan (Dr) | Individual |
| Jenny Norvick | Individual |
| Jeremy de Constantin | Individual |
| Jim Sheedy | Individual |
| Joan Kavallaris (Dr) | Individual |
| Jodie Guerrero | Individual |
| John and Joan Scott (Mr & Mrs) | Individual |
| John Chu (Dr) | Individual |
| John Menadue | Individual |
| John Ward | Individual |
| John Ward (Prof) | Individual |
| Johnson & Johnson | Organisation |
| Judy Hoskins | Individual |
| Julie Head | Individual |
| Julie Shaw (Dr) | Individual |
| Ken Brown | Individual |
| Khjakovic (Prof) | Individual |
| Kwee Ong | Individual |
| Lachlan de Crespigny (Prof) | Individual |
| Laks Pathi (Dr) | Individual |
| Laura Condon | Individual |
| Laura Pollard | Individual |
| Laws University of Naturopathy | Organisation |
| Leonard Crocombe (Dr) | Individual |
| Liz Coombes | Individual |
| Lois Logan | Individual |
| Luke Slawomirski | Individual |
| Lyndal Breen | Individual |
| Lynn Hague | Individual |
| M Citizen | Individual |
| M R Tyler | Individual |
| Maggie Sim | Individual |
| Mamu Health Service | Organisation |
| Mandy Bryce | Individual |
| Margaret Allen Stewart (Ms) | Individual |
| Marion Morris | Individual |
| Marlene Eggert | Individual |
| Mary de Hayr (Mrs) | Individual |
| Mary Draper | Individual |
| Maternity Coalition QLD | Organisation |
| Maureen Noonan | Individual |
| Medibank Private | Organisation |
| Medical Deans of Australia and New Zealand | Organisation |
| Medical Student Council of Victoria | Organisation |
| Medical Technology Association of Australia | Organisation |
| Medicines Australia | Organisation |
| Megan Yarrow | Individual |
| Mel De La Haye | Individual |
| Melbourne - Monash Clinical Working Group | Organisation |
| Melbourne Health | Organisation |
| Melbourne Medical Locum Service | Organisation |
| Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia | Organisation |
| Menzies Centre for Health Policy | Organisation |
| Michael Cameron | Individual |
| Michael Williams (Dr) | Individual |
| Microsoft Australia | Organisation |
| Migrant Resource Centre | Organisation |
| Monash University - Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre | Organisation |
| Monash University (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences) | Organisation |
| Monash University (Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre) | Organisation |
| More and Associates | Organisation |
| Motor Neurone Disease Australia | Organisation |
| Mount Alexander hospital | Organisation |
| MS Australia | Organisation |
| Municipal Association of Victoria | Organisation |
| Muscular Dystrophy Australia | Organisation |
| Narelle Green (Mrs) | Individual |
| National Aged Care Alliance | Organisation |
| National Ageing Research Institute | Organisation |
| National and NSW Councils for Intellectual Disability | Organisation |
| National Association of Testing Authorities | Organisation |
| National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre | Organisation |
| National Centre for Classification in Health | Organisation |
| National Coalition of Public Pathology | Organisation |
| National Council on the Ageing | Organisation |
| National ex-Services Round Table on Aged Care | Organisation |
| National GLBT Health Alliance | Organisation |
| National GP and PHC Research Conference | Organisation |
| National Heart Foundation of Australia | Organisation |
| National Institute of Complementary Medicine | Organisation |
| National Mental Health Consumer and Carer Forum | Organisation |
| National Prescribing Service | Organisation |
| National Rural Health Alliance | Organisation |
| National Seniors Australia | Organisation |
| Need More GPs | Organisation |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition | Organisation |
| Newcastle Uni sport | Organisation |
| NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Patient Safety | Organisation |
| Nick Argall | Individual |
| Nilva Egana | Individual |
| Noise Watch Australia | Organisation |
| Norm Morris | Individual |
| North Queensland Community Service | Organisation |
| North Sydney and Central Coast Area Health Service | Organisation |
| NSW Consumer Advisory Group - Mental Health Inc | Organisation |
| NSW Health - Quality and Safety Branch | Organisation |
| NSW Medical Staff Executive Council | Organisation |
| NSW Medical Students Council | Organisation |
| NSW Pain Interest Group | Organisation |
| NSW Poisons Information Centre | Organisation |
| NSW Rural Doctors Network | Organisation |
| Office of the Privacy Commissioner | Organisation |
| Olivia Chisholm | Individual |
| Optometrists Association Victoria | Organisation |
| Orthoptic Association of Australia - NSW | Organisation |
| ORYGEN Youth Health | Organisation |
| P A Hefner (Dr) | Individual |
| Palliative Care Australia | Organisation |
| Parkinson's Australia | Organisation |
| Patrick Byrnes (Dr) | Individual |
| Paul Bennett (Dr) | Individual |
| Paul Burt | Individual |
| Paul Gross | Individual |
| Paul Nicolarakis | Individual |
| People with MS Australia | Organisation |
| Peter Brooks (Executive Dean, Faculty of Health Services, Qld University | Individual |
| Pfizer Australia | Organisation |
| Pharmaceutical Society of Australia | Organisation |
| Pharmacy Guild of Australia | Organisation |
| Phil Lowen | Individual |
| Phillip Bain & Jim Pasinis & Nola Tudball | Individual |
| Phillip Gray | Individual |
| Plenty Valley Community Health | Organisation |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers | Organisation |
| Primary Health Care Research and Information Service | Organisation |
| Private Hospital Association of Queensland | Organisation |
| Private Mental Health Consumer Carer Network (Australia) | Organisation |
| Prof Leslie White | Individual |
| Public Health Association of Australia | Organisation |
| Public Health Association of Australia - SA | Organisation |
| Public Interest Advocacy Centre | Organisation |
| Purchasing Index PL | Organisation |
| Queensland Nurses Union | Organisation |
| Querida David | Individual |
| Quiet Tasmania | Organisation |
| R A Cheasley | Individual |
| Rachel Austin | Individual |
| Radicalogic Technologies Pty Ltd (trading as 'rL Solutions') | Organisation |
| Ray Good | Individual |
| Renu | Individual |
| Research + Evaluation + Design (RED3) | Organisation |
| Research Australia | Organisation |
| Residential Care Intervention Program in the Elderly (RECIPE) | Organisation |
| Respecting Patient Choices | Organisation |
| Rhonda Kerr | Individual |
| Richard Gorman | Individual |
| Richard Harper (Prof) | Individual |
| Robert Johnson | Individual |
| Roger Hewitt | Individual |
| Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators | Organisation |
| Royal Australasian College of Pathologists - Pathology Associations Committee | Organisation |
| Royal Australasian College of Physicians | Organisation |
| Royal Australasian College of Surgeons | Organisation |
| Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists | Organisation |
| Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists | Organisation |
| Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists - Faculty of Radiation Oncology | Organisation |
| Royal College of Nursing Australia | Organisation |
| Royal College of Pathologists Australasia | Organisation |
| Royal College of Pathologists Australasia - Genetics | Organisation |
| Royal College of Pathologists Australasia - Profile | Organisation |
| Royal District Nursing Service | Organisation |
| Royal Hospital for Women | Organisation |
| Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital | Organisation |
| Royal Women's Hospital Melbourne | Organisation |
| Rural Doctors Association of Australia | Organisation |
| Rural Doctors Association of Australia - Joint Submission on Rural Maternity Services | Organisation |
| Rural Doctors Association of Australia - Joint Submission on Rural Specialist Medical Workforce | Organisation |
| Rural Health Education Foundation | Organisation |
| Rural Health Workforce Australia | Organisation |
| S T Liaw (Prof) | Individual |
| SA Health | Organisation |
| SANE Australia | Organisation |
| Sanofi-Aventis Australia | Organisation |
| Sara Christopher | Individual |
| Sarah Latrielle (Dr) | Individual |
| School of Dentistry - University of Adelaide | Organisation |
| School of Public Health, USYD | Organisation |
| School of Rural Health (Monash) | Organisation |
| Shane Doepel (Ms) | Individual |
| Sharon Tonkin | Individual |
| Silver Chain | Organisation |
| Simone Dalton | Individual |
| Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia | Organisation |
| Sonia Phelan | Individual |
| South East Healthy Communities Partnerships | Organisation |
| Southern General Practice Network | Organisation |
| Speech Pathology Australia | Organisation |
| St Jude Medical Australia | Organisation |
| Standards Australia | Organisation |
| Stephanie Davies (Dr) | Individual |
| Stephen Gibson | Individual |
| Stephen Leeuwenburg | Individual |
| Sue Roberts | Individual |
| Sydney Institute of General Practice Education and Training (SIGPET) | Organisation |
| Tanya Robertson (Dr) | Individual |
| Tara Fuller | Individual |
| Tatiana Borisow (Miss) | Individual |
| Tegan Ormston | Individual |
| Telstra | Organisation |
| Terry Ahern (Dr) | Individual |
| Tess and Glenn Williams | Individual |
| The Forum Sports and Aquatic Centre | Organisation |
| The Health and Productivity Institute of Australia | Organisation |
| The Sax Institute | Organisation |
| Theresa Findlay | Individual |
| Thomas Faunce (Dr) | Individual |
| Tom Bialkowski | Individual |
| Tom Shorrock | Individual |
| Tonia Zoldosh | Individual |
| Tony Lenigas | Individual |
| Tony Richards (Dr) | Individual |
| Tracey McDonald (Prof) | Individual |
| Tressna Flower | Individual |
| Tricare | Organisation |
| UnitingCare Burnside | Organisation |
| University of Melbourne | Organisation |
| Unknown author? | Individual |
| UQ Faculty of Health Sciences | Organisation |
| VicHealth | Organisation |
| Victorian Child and Maternal Health Special Interest Group | Organisation |
| Victorian Government - Department of Human Services | Organisation |
| Victorian Healthcare Association | Organisation |
| Victorian Primary and Community Health Network | Organisation |
| Victorian State Coordinator Group | Organisation |
| Victorian Women and Mental Health Network | Organisation |
| Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research | Organisation |
| Walter Coffey | Individual |
| Wendy Porter | Individual |
| Westfund | Organisation |
| Westmead Children's Hospital | Organisation |
| What Women Want (Australia) Inc | Organisation |
| William Silvester et. Al (from Austin Hospital) | Individual |
| Women's Health Victoria | Organisation |
| Women's Hospitals of Australasia | Organisation |
| Woolcott Research | Organisation |
| Workforce Leisure International | Organisation |
| Wyeth Australia | Organisation |
| Yvonne Parry | Individual |
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