Healthcare: Funding for value

Increasing the financial sustainability and quality of healthcare is essential. This paper reviews alternative and evolving funding models to focus more on value.

Evolving funding models must be implemented in the health system in order to ensure the financial sustainability and quality of healthcare in Australia.

This paper reviews how Commonwealth and State governments could complement traditional funding models already in place, with new models such as outcomes based funding, bundled payments and alliance contracting.

System wide transformation is required to secure the future sustainability of our health system and deliver outcomes that really matter to patients.