The Health Advocate - Podcast: Recent Episodes
Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association
The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) is Australia’s national peak body for public and not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare providers.
The 2022 John Deeble Lecture was presented at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia on the 26th of October 2022 by the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association.
The 2nd John Deeble Lecture, was delivered by Mr Michael Brennan, Chair of the Productivity Commission, and was followed by a panel discussion featuring prominent health policy leaders from around Australia and will be released as a follow-up episode of The Health Advocate Podcast.
Welcome back to the 2nd podcast of the 2022 John Deeble Lecture, commemorating the life achievements of Professor John Deeble, co-founder of Australia’s universal healthcare system, Medicare.
The Panel Discussion was recorded live, following the 2022 John Deeble Lecture held on the 26th of October 2022 and featured special guest speakers: Mr Michael Brennan (Productivity Commission), Mr Michael Pervan (TAS Government), Ms Yasmin King (Skills IQ), Prof Lisa Nissen (UQ) and Adj AProf Paul Burgess (NT Health).
The panel reflected on the complexities of the health workforce and the ways we deliver health workforce policy in Australia.
Melanie van Altena, Director of Dental Health Services Victoria's Smile Squad School Dental Program joins AHHA Engagement and Business Director Lisa Robey to discuss the award-winning program. The Smile Squad School Dental Program was awarded the 2021 value-Based Health Care Innovation Award at this year's Value-Based Health Care Conference.
Dr Paul Preisz, St Vincent's Health Network Sydney, Emergency Department Director and Scott Daley, Aboriginal Health Manager, join AHHA Strategic Programs Director, Dr Chris Bourke to discuss how St Vincent's has improved health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
Joseph Conte, Executive Director, Staten Island Performing Provider System (SI PPS) in the United States joins AHHA Chief Executive Alison Verhoeven to discuss how SI PPS is implementing the Medicaid Redesign program and shifting from a volume to a value-based approach to healthcare.
Joe will be speaking at the upcoming Value-Based Health Care Conference, 27 – 28 May in Perth and online. For more information about the conference visit: www.ciccancer.com/vbhcconf.
For more information about the AHHA visit: www.ahha.asn.au.
Adelaide GP Dr Chris Bollen joins AHHA's Dr Rebecca Haddock to talk about his experiences at the coal face during the COVID-19 pandemic, using telehealth services to support his patients. The discussion also focuses on how telehealth has been able to drive the quadruple aim during this period, including an improvement in health outcomes and a better experience both for patients and for general practice.
In our latest episode of The Health Advocate Podcast, AHHA’s Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research Director, Rebecca Haddock sits down with Teresa Anderson Chief Executive, Sydney Local Health District (SLHD) to discuss the RPA Virtual Hospital and its role during the pandemic. Teresa also discusses virtual health and the need for strong clinical governance, scalability, access to technology and the costs associated with that, the virtual workforce and measuring patient outcomes and experience.
In this episode of the Health Advocate Podcast AHHA's Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research Director, Rebecca Haddock, talks with 2020 Jeff Cheverton Memorial Scholar Caitlin Shaw about her experiences as a final year medical student during the COVID-19 pandemic. Caitie also discusses her Issues Brief on the 'Integration of general practice pharmacists into primary healthcare setting for chronic disease management'.
Anna Flynn, Centre Executive for the Australian Centre for Value-Based Health Care sits down with Dr Robyn Clay-Williams and Adj Ass Prof. Natalie Taylor to discuss the recent study 'Deepening our Understanding of Quality in Australia' a nationwide study on quality management systems, patient outcomes and emergency departments.
This is episode 2 of a two-part podcast series on the effects of the bushfires on the health of Australians. In this episode, we sit down with Dr Sebastian Rosenberg, Head of the Mental Health Policy Unit, Centre for Mental Health Research at The Australian National University, to discuss the effects that the bushfires have had on the mental health of Australians.
In our first episode, Sotiris Vardoulakis, Professor of Global Environmental Health at the Australian National University, explores the effects the bushfires have had on our health.
For more information on AHHA, you can follow us on twitter @Aushealthcare or visit our website ahha.asn.au
In this special two-part podcast series, AHHA's Rebecca Haddock, Director of the Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research sits down with academics from the Australian National University to discuss the impacts of the bushfires on Australians.
In this first podcast episode, Sotiris Vardoulakis, Professor of Global Environmental Health, discusses the impact that the bushfire smoke has had on our health. Our next podcast looks at the impacts of the bushfires on Australians mental health.
For more info on AHHA follow us on twitter (@aushealthcare) or visit our website ahha.asn.au
In AHHA's first podcast of 2020, AHHA CEO Alison Verhoeven sits down to interview Emma Whitehead, General Manager, Strategy, Planning and Performance at Central Queensland, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast Primary Health Network. Emma has recently begun 'The Advanced Leadership Program' run by Women and Leadership Australia and discusses what this course involves and how it has influenced her life and work.
The inaugural John Deeble Lecture was presented at Parliament House on the 18th of October 2019 by the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association. In the inaugural lecture, Professor Nigel Edwards (CEO Nuffield Trust) considered some of the more common dysfunctions in health policy formation and implementation, and offered possible solutions to these issues.
The inaugural John Deeble Lecture was presented at Parliament House on the 18th of October 2019 by the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association. The Lecture was followed by a panel discussion which reflected on the complexities of the health system, and discussed the way we manage and set health policy in Australia.
Members of the panel included Professor Ian Frazer (Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland), the Hon Nicola Roxon (Chair, HESTA), Mr Romlie Mokak (Commissioner, Productivity Commission) and moderator Professor Johanna Westbrook (Director, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research Macquarie University).
Re-orienting funding from volume to value in public dental health services Brief: https://ahha.asn.au/system/files/docs/publications/deeble_issues_brief_no_32_reorienting_funding_from_volume_to_value_.pdf
Dr Rebecca Haddock, Director of The Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research sits down with Dr Shalika Hegde to discuss her recently published policy brief on 'Re-orienting funding from volume to value in public dental health services' and her experience with AHHA as a Deeble Summer Scholar. Listen to learn more.
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In this 14th episode of The Health Advocate Podcast Dr Rebecca Haddock director of the Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research, the research branch of AHHA sits down with Policy Director Kylie Woolcock to discuss her Health Policy Brief ‘Value-Based Healthcare: Setting the scene for Australia’. . . Music (bit.ly/2JNjt6G) by Lee Rosevere (bit.ly/2uH023Z) / CC BY 4.0 (bit.ly/1rMF155) / Excerpt from original
In this 13th episode of The Health Advocate podcast, we have a live recording of a panel discussion from the launch of the Australian Centre for Value-Based Health Care on the 11th June 2019 in Melbourne.
The panel discussion was led by AHHA Chief Executive Alison Verhoeven with panellists Cristobel Saunders, Anne Duggan, Michael Pervan and Terry Symonds, followed by a case study presentation by Dr Deborah Cole and Susan McKee about Dental Health Services Victoria’s value-based health care project and its achievements to date in transforming oral healthcare.
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In this 12th episode of The Health Advocate Podcast Advocacy Director Krister Partel sits down with special guest Prof John McDonough from Harvard University to discuss opportunities and challenges in the Australian and American healthcare systems—including why they’re so hard to reform and how health leaders can anticipate and respond to health system challenges in the context of political change. . . Music (bit.ly/2JNjt6G) by Lee Rosevere (bit.ly/2uH023Z) / CC BY 4.0 (bit.ly/1rMF155) / Excerpt from original
In this eleventh episode of The Health Advocate Podcast AHHA's Director of the Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research, Rebecca Haddock, sits down with Stephanie Pushka, who is currently undertaking her Ph.D. studies to discuss her Deeble Institute issues brief on improving access to housing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander renal patients with complex care needs available at: https://ahha.asn.au/system/files/docs/publications/deeble_issues_brief_no._30_-_improving_access_to_housing_for_aboriginal_and_torres_strait_islander_renal_patients_with_complex_care_needs.pdf. . . Music (bit.ly/2JNjt6G) by Lee Rosevere (bit.ly/2uH023Z) / CC BY 4.0 (bit.ly/1rMF155) / Excerpt from original
In this tenth episode of the AHHA's Health Advocate Podcast, Advocacy Director Krister Partel and AHHA's Dr Chris Bourke sit down to discuss all things reconciliation week, including this weeks theme 'Grounded in truth. Walking Together with courage.' . . Music (bit.ly/2JNjt6G) by Lee Rosevere (bit.ly/2uH023Z) / CC BY 4.0 (bit.ly/1rMF155) / Excerpt from original
In the second part of the ninth episode of the AHHA's Health Advocate Podcast, AHHA Advocacy Director Krister Partel and Website and Social Media Officer, Terri McDonald discuss the release of AHHA's assessment of the health policies released by the major political parties ahead of the 2019 federal election. . . Music (bit.ly/2JNjt6G) by Lee Rosevere (bit.ly/2uH023Z) / CC BY 4.0 (bit.ly/1rMF155) / Excerpt from original
In the ninth episode of the AHHA's Health Advocate Podcast, AHHA Advocacy Director Krister Partel and Chief Executive, Alison Verhoeven discuss the release of AHHA's assessment of the health policies released by the major political parties ahead of the 2019 federal election. . . Music (bit.ly/2JNjt6G) by Lee Rosevere (bit.ly/2uH023Z) / CC BY 4.0 (bit.ly/1rMF155) / Excerpt from original
In the eighth episode of the AHHA's Health Advocate Podcast, Advocacy Director Krister Partel and AHHA Chief Executive Alison Verhoeven discuss the upcoming 2019 Federal Election and AHHA's seven key health priorities for the incoming Government. . . Music (bit.ly/2JNjt6G) by Lee Rosevere (bit.ly/2uH023Z) / CC BY 4.0 (bit.ly/1rMF155) / Excerpt from original
In the seventh episode of the AHHA's Health Advocate Podcast, Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research Director, Rebecca Haddock, discusses the need for disinvestment in low-value care in Australia with former Deeble Institute Summer Scholar, Victoria McCreanor. . . Music (bit.ly/2JNjt6G) by Lee Rosevere (bit.ly/2uH023Z) / CC BY 4.0 (bit.ly/1rMF155) / Excerpt from original
In the sixth episode of the AHHA's Health Advocate Podcast, AHHA Engagement and Business Director, Lisa Robey, discusses the concept of re-positioning the hospital with Nigel Edwards, Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust and a keynote speaker at the upcoming 42nd World Hospital Congress in Brisbane. . . Music (bit.ly/2JNjt6G) by Lee Rosevere (bit.ly/2uH023Z) / CC BY 4.0 (bit.ly/1rMF155) / Excerpt from original
In the fifth episode of the AHHA's Health Advocate Podcast, Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research Director, Dr Rebecca Haddock, discusses the latest Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research Issues Brief, The impact of the home care reforms on the older person, the aged care workforce and the wider Health System, with its author, Deeble Institute Summer Scholar, Dr Mikaela Jorgensen. . . Music (bit.ly/2JNjt6G) by Lee Rosevere (bit.ly/2uH023Z) / CC BY 4.0 (bit.ly/1rMF155) / Excerpt from original
In the fourth episode of the AHHA's Health Advocate Podcast, Engagement and Business Director, Lisa Robey, discusses Integrated Care with Director, UQ-MRI Centre for Health System Reform and Integration at the University of Queensland and Professor in General Practice and Primary Care Research, Professor Claire Jackson. . . Music (bit.ly/2JNjt6G) by Lee Rosevere (bit.ly/2uH023Z) / CC BY 4.0 (bit.ly/1rMF155) / Excerpt from original
In the third episode of the AHHA's Health Advocate Podcast, Deeble Institute Manager, Dr Rebecca Haddock, discusses the latest Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research Issues Brief, Improving Pharmacist Involvement in Pandemic Influenza Planning and Response in Australia, with its author, Deeble Institute Summer Scholar, Elizabeth McCourt. . . . Music (bit.ly/2JNjt6G) by Lee Rosevere (bit.ly/2uH023Z) / CC BY 4.0 (bit.ly/1rMF155) / Excerpt from original
Welcome to the Health Advocate Podcast - showcasing the work of AHHA members and friends . . . Music (https://bit.ly/2JNjt6G)| by Lee Rosevere (https://bit.ly/2uH023Z) | CC BY 4.0 (https://bit.ly/1rMF155) / Excerpt from original
In the second episode of the AHHA's Health Advocate Podcast, Chief Executive Alison Verhoeven sits down with co-founder of the #hellomynameis campaign, Chris Pointon to discuss the upcoming 42nd World Hospital Congress, to be held in Brisbane on 10-12 October 2018. . . . Music (https://bit.ly/2JNjt6G) by Lee Rosevere (https://bit.ly/2uH023Z) / CC BY 4.0 (https://bit.ly/1rMF155) / Excerpt from original