The Australian Healthcare System

Written Report The Australian Healthcare System Student Name: Lu Qi Student Number: 384150 Teachers: Mrs. A. Miletic Mrs. F. Nicholls Line: 9 SECTION A INTRODUCTION: I chose the Australian healthcare system as my topic because I found everyday on newspaper there are always some articles telling about the health reform in Australia or in the US. And just in June this year, the final report by the NHHRC (National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission) was released, in which it makes up to 123 recommendations towards the current healthcare system in Australia. It quite surprised me when I first read some of the recommendations because the problems revealed by the report were so severe and unbelievable. Before I did this project, I thought that the health system in Australia is quite wonderful and there could only be some tiny deficiencies in the system. However this report quite shocked me after I finished reading it. When I was thinking about which approach I should choose, I figured out that it’s not suitable for a person who just came into the contact with the health system in Australia to write an opinionative article explaining his own opinion. In general, health system is quite good in Australia and there is no point to explain the good parts so I will focus on the problems of the current health system. And here are my four objectives: An overview of the healthcare system in Australia. What effects have the healthcare system impacted on patients? What does the final report by the NHHRC tell us? PROCEDURES: First, I went to the Taylors library to look for the topic corresponding to the ‘healthcare system’ in the “Finding Current Information [Issues] 2009” Then in my English class, my teacher led us to the computer room and the curator in the library showed us how to use the Echo-Ed and E-library, and I found several articles through the E-library. The curator said