Keynote 3: 2025: The year of primary care reform?
Tracks
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Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5
Track 6
| Sunday, May 25, 2025 |
| 9:15 - 10:15 |
| Goldsfield Theatre |
Details
Primary health reform has been talked about for decades but the outcomes have mostly been talk and tweaks rather than action. A series of reports landed on Health Minister Butler's desk at the end of 2024 which presage major reform - certainly if he is reappointed Minister after the election, and potentially if the Coalition wins. This talk will discuss the potential reforms and their implications.
Speaker
Dr Stephen Duckett AM
University of Melbourne
Keynote 3: 2025: The year of primary care reform?
Biography
Dr Stephen Duckett is an Honorary Enterprise Professor in the Department of General Practice and Primary Care at the University of Melbourne. He has held top health sector leadership positions in Australia and Canada and literally wrote the book on the Australian health care system (Oxford University Press, 6e, 2022). He is Chair of the Board of Directors of Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network and was a member of the Strengthening Medicare Task Force and the Review of General Practice Incentives. An economist, he is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in January 2023 for significant service to public health policy and management, and to tertiary education.
