Impact of Healthcare Policy on Nursing Practices and Healthcare System in Australia

Professional issues
and policy

Table of content
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
Australian healthcare environment..............................................................................................3
National Medicine policy.............................................................................................................3
Impact on nursing practises.............................................................................................................4
Impact on healthcare system............................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Health policies in country are extremely important to achieve several established targets
for short term and long term priorities in society which helps to keep people healthy and enable a
quality lifestyle. Australian health policies maintain strong parameters in their nursing standards
and medicines facilities for people to insure quality standards living patterns. This report
discusses impact of healthcare policy on nursing practises and impact on healthcare system
overall in Australia.
Main body
Australian healthcare environment
Australian healthcare policy focuses on building health programmes, immunization and
prevention of chronic disease in normal public by providing healthcare services and mental
health services through proper funding to hospitals and healthcare practises. Australia provides
medical services to all age groups of people and promoting the best world-class healthcare
practises to broad range of needs responding with the health emergencies scenarios and funding
the medical research facilities. Australia medical facilities and policies allow regulating and
overseeing distribution of proper healthcare facilities to aged people, both elite community and
also maintain their prescription of proper exercises and diet factors (Drugus and et.al.
2017).Australian healthcare facilities are highly concerned to increase patient safety through
prevention strategies and focusses on providing them with high ethical world-class standards of
medical services.
National Medicine policy
National medicine policy of Australia is framework of political commitment and
guidelines which ensure the supply of safe medicines, affordable healthcare services and
prevention of chronic diseases. The objectives of national medicines are providing incentives or
preventive healths and cost effective range medication to all people, retain the benefit of access
to healthcare services. Quality, safety and efficacy of medicines has made Australian healthcare
policy to maintain responsible viable medicines' industry and establish high quality life standards
of people. The doctors and nurses practising in hospitals are having specialization in various
medical fields and experience of serving treatments to various patients.
 Healthcare gaols to society define the parameters which determine high quality living
patterns to citizens and the policies maintain strong ethical use of medical practises and