Health professionals hold landmark meeting

Nurses, doctors, midwives and consumers meet to discuss the road to collaborative health reform

Peak nursing, midwifery, medical and consumer groups met on June 16 to discuss informing policy to guide health reform towards better health outcomes for the Australian community.

There was strong support for discussing ways to enable the community to be better informed about health issues. Providing access to timely, effective, high quality, safe primary health care is a key outcome sought by all organisations and the involvement of collaborative teams of health care professionals will help facilitate the best health outcomes for all Australians.

Medical, nursing and midwifery representatives said that although there was a lot to discuss, they were committed to taking further steps together towards a collaborative approach in primary health care improvement and reform.

The groups have agreed that a working group will meet in August 2009 made up of doctors, nurses, midwives and consumer representatives to progress the work on key areas of agreement.

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