MS DE CHASTEL: Thank you. Good luck with it all. Thank you. DR KING: Thank you. Now, the next organisation is Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association. Thank you, Ms Verhoeven. MS VERHOEVEN: you, and Dr Thurecht. DR KING: Again, if you could formally just state your name and organisation for the transcript. Sure. I’m Alison Verhoeven, Chief Executive of MS VERHOEVEN: the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association. DR THURECHT: My name is Dr Linc Thurecht, from the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association. DR KING: And are there opening remarks that you would like to make? MS VERHOEVEN: Yes, thank you. DR KING: you. MS VERHOEVEN: So the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association is a national peak body for public hospitals and not for profit hospitals and other healthcare providers including the primary care sector. So primary health networks, community health services, some aged care providers, and also a range of academic and clinical individual members as well. Our submission has focused largely on the health component of your report, so - and I’ll talk a little bit to that this morning. We acknowledged in a number of submissions that we’ve made to you that the healthcare sector is very complex, as you understand, with a mix of public and private service providers, public and private funding, and increasingly consumer costs associated with that. So that is part of the context in which we are speaking today. We want to highlight right from the outset, too, our concerns around the information asymmetry between consumers and healthcare providers, not only in terms of the clinical attributes related to their care, but also in terms of cost. So we think that places a significant emphasis on the principal agent relationship between the and the care provider. The complexity
MS DE CHASTEL: Thank you. Good luck with it all. Thank you. DR KING: Thank you. Now, the next organisation is Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association. Thank you, Ms Verhoeven. MS VERHOEVEN: you, and Dr Thurecht. DR KING: Again, if you could formally just state your name and organisation for the transcript. MS VERHOEVEN: Sure. I’m Alison Verhoeven, Chief Executive of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association. DR THURECHT: My name is Dr Linc Thurecht, from the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association. DR KING: And are there opening remarks that you would like to make? MS VERHOEVEN: Yes, thank you. DR KING: you. MS VERHOEVEN: So the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association is a national peak body for public hospitals and not for profit hospitals and other healthcare providers including the primary care sector. So primary health networks, community health services, some aged care providers, and also a range of academic and clinical individual members as well. Our submission has focused largely on the health component of your report, so - and I’ll talk a little bit to that this morning. We acknowledged in a number of submissions that we’ve made to you that the healthcare sector is very complex, as you understand, with a mix of public and private service providers, public and private funding, and increasingly consumer costs associated with that. So that is part of the context in which we are speaking today. We want to highlight right from the outset, too, our concerns around the information asymmetry between consumers and healthcare providers, not only in terms of the clinical attributes related to their care, but also in terms of cost. So we think that places a significant emphasis on the principal agent relationship between the and the care provider. The complexity
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