Australian doctors and clinicians have prepared a plan that they believe can revolutionise the current Australian health care system and take it beyond what they call a broken and imbalanced service to a more balanced and valued-based care system. The aforementioned blueprint designed by Australian Health professionals is called “Healthy people, healthy systems”, and it has four proposals the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA), says will eliminate the politics and unfair accusations of blame out of reform. The first of the fours suggestions is to create an independent national health authority that reports directly to the Council of Australian Governments or the COAG Health Council. This would allow for a nationally unified and regionally controlled health system, AHHA chief executive Alison Verhoeven said in her statement to Australian Associated Press (AAP). The other recommendations comprise proposals that all government-funded health providers provide data on patient outcomes to support gauge performance, generating a national health workforce plan that considers roles and accountabilities rather than locality, and sustaining Commonwealth financial support for public hospitals with a mixed funding formula. ‘Over the past nine months Australian health leaders mapped out how to transform our healthcare system into a fit for purpose 21st century system that will meet the needs and expectations of Australians,” Ms Verhoeven said. “Healthy people, healthy systems is a solid blueprint with a range of short, medium and long-term recommendations on how to reorientate our healthcare system to focus on patient outcomes and value rather than vested interests.” Original Source: AAP