Medical Care Practice In Australia

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The health care system is defined as a proposed structural body that is comprised of many
institutions, service providers, government, hospitals, and different organizations, provides
health services to the population. This medical care procedure is worldwide and performed in
many countries such as Canada, Germany, the USA, the UK, Australia, China, and so on. In this
article, detailed information about health maintenance that is accomplished in Australia is
discussed. It is also described the services provided, the cost, and responsibility of the public,
state, health care professionals, nurses along the similarity and dissimilarity of the mentioned
system with the US system, the advantage and disadvantages of this system.
Three types of models exist in health services worldwide. The Australian health system is
based on the hybrid model. Australian medical care is also constructed on a defensive care
framework. It deals with chronic diseases even with a severe illness such as infections, wounds
and mental health problems. The health care practice followed in Australia provides universal
exposure and it is maintained by the Government- federal, territory and local as well as private
enterprises like Medicare (Dixit & Sambasivan,2018). Different kinds of medical facilities are
available that are delivered to the Australian people are primary care, hospital, out-patient
treatment, after-hours carefulness, mental illness care, continuous therapy and also social
support. It covers primary health to precautionary and the treatment provides from common to
most complex diseases. In this way, this system is comprised of two key portions- one is private
health method another is public health structure. In the public health structure hospitals are
financed by Government and the treatment is provided to the patient at low-priced and in a better
way.

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On the other hand, private health practice is mostly owned and supported by private
institutions though it is approved and controlled by the Government (department of health, 2020).
The stakeholders of this structure are a general practitioner (GP), physicians, nurses, specialists,
management staff and other health professionals. Nurses detect and treat serious health problems
like infection, injuries. They also diagnose, monitor and care for prolonged diseases such as
hypertension, diabetes along with place order, supply, and prescribe some medicines as well as
perform and analyze diagnostics tests. The function of advanced practice nurses is to carry out
endoscopy, cystoscopy along with nurse practitioners.
In this section, the financial support of the system is described. The Australian
Government supports the significant capital but there are other investment organizations, for
example, private companies, often paid by own. The government has a Medicare scheme. It
provides the public with medical assistance in primary and related healthcare that is funded
through taxes. There are various schemes named The Medicare Benefits Schedule and The
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. The MBS consists of a list of care services that the
Government grants to the public. PBS aids the availability of medicine at a low cost. Besides
this, private insurances are also offered to the people of Australia. It delivers coverage of two
kinds of protection. One is hospital cover that is for an individual patient and another is general
cure options that are covered for physiotherapy, dental and optical cure (department of health,
2020). The Government, personal, local and state agencies have the responsibility in this health
system. The government regulates the MBS and PBS schemes as well as private insurances.
They support, investigate, recommend and improve the quality, efficacy, and potentiality of
primary medical coverage (the commonwealth fund, 2020). State and local agencies are
accountable for the safety and quality enhancement of the care services. It has a role in the