National Health Reform: Objectives, Implementation, Challenges and Recommendations

Running head: NATIONAL HEALTH REFORM
National Health Reform
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NATIONAL HEALTH REFORM
Executive Summary
The The National Health Reform Agreement by the Australian Government aims to provide a
comprehensive revamp of the Australian Healthcare system through effective channelization
of funding and other resources. The following report highlighted the objective and principal
of the healthcare reform along with its process of implementation and role of the government.
The report also focus on the challenges of the reform along with the possible
recommendation. The analysis of the healthcare reform highlighted that though the funding
of the reform is effective along with the initiative of the government there are no effective
planning of the transportation facilities in the remote areas for effective investment of
funding.

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NATIONAL HEALTH REFORM
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Objectives and principles...........................................................................................................3
Steps of implementations...........................................................................................................4
Implementation of National health reforms by the government................................................5
Challenges..................................................................................................................................6
Recommendation and conclusion..............................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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NATIONAL HEALTH REFORM
Introduction
The National Health Reform Agreement sets out shared intention of the
Commonwealth government of State and Territory in order to promote partnership towards
improving the overall health-related outcomes of Australia and to ensure the overall
sustainability of the Australian healthcare system. The following report aims to analyze the
aims and objectives of the National Health Reform along the review of the implementation of
the reform and role of government. At the end, the report aims to analyze the challenges in
implementation of the reform and subsequent recommendation to overcome the challenges.
Objectives and principles
The main objective of the National Health Reform Agreement is to improve the
overall access of the patients’ healthcare services and improvement of the efficiency of the
public hospital via the implementation of the activity based funding (ABF) (Council of
Australian Government, 2011). The Reform also ensures sustainable use of the funding along
with improvement in the transparency of the public hospital funding. The implementation of
the National Health Reform also aims to improve the standards of the clinical care and
performance of reporting of clinical practice gaps through Australian Commission on Safety
and Quality in Health Care and National Health Performance Authority respectively. At the
end, this National Reform aims to improve the accountability of the heath care professionals
while increasing the provision of care though proper development of skills. The National
Health Reform Agreement provides a special focus to the aged care facility and disability
services through clarification of the assigned responsibility of the client groups (Council of
Australian Government, 2011). Thus, overall it can be said that the main principal of the
National Health Reform Agreement is to upheld the overall healthcare system through