Submissions
The Special Commission of Inquiry into Healthcare Funding has been receiving submissions from health sector representative bodies, service providers, health staff and practitioners, the general public and interested parties on matters relevant to its Terms of Reference.
Submissions are an essential part of the Inquiry process, allowing the Inquiry to consider a wide range of perspectives and evidence.
Please note that submissions received by the Inquiry are not automatically made public. The Inquiry may decide to release all or part of a submission publicly, considering factors such as the sensitivity of the information, the relevance to the inquiry, and the public interest.
This page is subject to being updated throughout the course of the inquiry. The Commissioner may revise or remove submissions from this list, as necessary.
Listing of Submissions
- Submission 001 NSW Health (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Submission 002 Northen NSW LHD Board (PDF, 286 KB)
- Submission 003 Western NSW LHD (PDF, 1 MB)
- Submission 004 South Eastern Sydney LHD (PDF, 487 KB)
- Submission 005 Murrumbidgee LHD Board (PDF, 310 KB)
- Submission 006 Murrumbidgee LHD (PDF, 547 KB)
- Submission 007 Western Sydney LHD (PDF, 809 KB)
- Submission 008 Far West LHD (PDF, 255 KB)
- Submission 009 Northern Sydney LHD (PDF, 40 MB)
- Submission 010 Southern NSW LHD (PDF, 257 KB)
- Submission 011 Cancer Services SWSLHD (PDF, 346 KB)
- Submission 012 South Western Sydney LHD (PDF, 767 KB)
- Submission 013 Sydney LHD (PDF, 434 KB)
- Submission 014 SCHN (PDF, 1 MB)
- Submission 015 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery CHW (PDF, 1.9 MB)
- Submission 016 Haematology Department CHW (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Submission 017 Genetic Metabolic Disorders Service SCHN (PDF, 2.2 MB)
- Submission 018 Clinical Excellence Commission (PDF, 735 KB)
- Submission 019 Bureau of Health Information (PDF, 316 KB)
- Submission 020 NSW Primary Health Network (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- Submission 021 Central and Eastern Sydney PHN (PDF, 204 KB)
- Submission 022 NSW Health Pathology (PDF, 396 KB)
- Submission 023 Cancer Institute NSW (PDF, 799 KB)
- Submission 024 Chinese Medicine Council of NSW (PDF, 252 KB)
- Submission 025 Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD (PDF, 236 KB)
- Submission 026 Justice Health NSW (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- Submission 027 Hunter New England LHD (PDF, 631 KB)
- Submission 028 Adjunct Professor K Eagar UNSW (PDF, 1.9 MB)
- Submission 029 SPHERE ACU (PDF, 2.2 MB)
- Submission 030 Charles Perkins Centre USYD (PDF, 874 KB)
- Submission 031 Professor Jonathan Clark AM (PDF, 368 KB)
- Submission 032 Chris OBrien Lifehouse (PDF, 344 KB)
- Submission 033 Faculty of Health UTS (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Submission 034 Wiser Healthcare (PDF, 397 KB)
- Submission 035 ASPIRE (PDF, 516 KB)
- Submission 036 Department of Rural Health USYD (PDF, 206 KB)
- Submission 037 Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics USYD (PDF, 560 KB)
- Submission 038 Australian Insitute of Health Innovation MacqU (PDF, 373 KB)
- Submission 039 Australian Centre for Health Law Research QUT (PDF, 503 KB)
- Submission 040 School of Population and Global Health (PDF, 368 KB)
- Submission 041 Brain and Mind Centre USYD (PDF, 607 KB)
- Submission 042 The George Institute for Global Health (PDF, 818 KB)
- Submission 043 Dr Ross Kerridge (PDF, 155 KB)
- Submission 044 Dr Edward Jegasothy (PDF, 334 KB)
- Submission 045 College of Health and Medicine UTAS (PDF, 259 KB)
- Submission 046 Sax Institute (PDF, 663 KB)
- Submission 047 Department of Rural Health UON (PDF, 591 KB)
- Submission 048 Dr Rhonda Kerr (PDF, 443 KB)
- Submission 049 Speech Pathology Australia (PDF, 108 KB)
- Submission 050 Day Hospital Australia (PDF, 347 KB)
- Submission 051 Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW (PDF, 309 KB)
- Submission 052 Healthly Communities Foundation Australia (PDF, 259 KB)
- Submission 053 National Disability Services (PDF, 345 KB)
- Submission 054 Lung Foundation Australia (PDF, 358 KB)
- Submission 055 Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation (PDF, 422 KB)
- Submission 056 Occupational Therapy Australia (PDF, 396 KB)
- Submission 057 ANZ College of Anaesthetists (PDF, 368 KB)
- Submission 058 Paramedicine Council of NSW (PDF, 372 KB)
- Submission 059 Cancer Council NSW (PDF, 662 KB)
- Submission 060 Border Medical Association (PDF, 106 KB)
- Submission 061 Maternity Consumer Network (PDF, 362 KB)
- Submission 062 Australian Society of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (PDF, 4.6 MB)
- Submission 063 Parkinsons NSW (PDF, 272 KB)
- Submission 064 Australian Health Promotion Association (PDF, 417 KB)
- Submission 065 Australasian College of Dermatologists (PDF, 432 KB)
- Submission 066 Juvenile Arthritis Foundation Australia (PDF, 481 KB)
- Submission 067 Pharmacy Guild of Australia (PDF, 8.1 MB)
- Submission 068 Positive Life NSW (PDF, 470 KB)
- Submission 069 Australian Medical Association NSW (PDF, 1.9 MB)
- Submission 070 ACON (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- Submission 071 Anglicare (PDF, 172 KB)
- Submission 072 Australian College for Emergency Medicine (PDF, 290 KB)
- Submission 073 Physical Disability Council of NSW (PDF, 867 KB)
- Submission 074 Health Services Association of NSW (PDF, 379 KB)
- Submission 075 Rare Voices Australia (PDF, 8.1 MB)
- Submission 076 Macular Disease Foundation Australia (PDF, 104 KB)
- Submission 077 Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (PDF, 883 KB)
- Submission 078 NeuroEndocrine Cancer Australia (PDF, 914 KB)
- Submission 079 Fiona Stanley (PDF, 1.5 MB)
- Submission 080 Health Consumers NSW (PDF, 745 KB)
- Submission 081 Network of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies (PDF, 479 KB)
- Submission 082 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of O and G (PDF, 399 KB)
- Submission 083 Dietitians Australia (PDF, 265 KB)
- Submission 084 Better Border Health (PDF, 1015 KB)
- Submission 085 National Heart Foundation Australia (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Submission 086 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (PDF, 685 KB)
- Submission 087 Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (PDF, 575 KB)
- Submission 088 NSW Therapeutic Advisory Group (PDF, 477 KB)
- Submission 089 Public Health Association of Australia (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- Submission 090 BEING Mental Health Consumers (PDF, 536 KB)
- Submission 091 Australasian College of Health Service Management (PDF, 492 KB)
- Submission 092 Australasian College of Pharmacy (PDF, 346 KB)
- Submission 093 Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (PDF, 144 KB)
- Submission 094 Minderoo Foundation (PDF, 1018 KB)
- Submission 095 Headspace Foundation (PDF, 459 KB)
- Submission 096 Australasian College of Paramedicine (PDF, 889 KB)
- Submission 097 Australian College of Nursing (PDF, 606 KB)
- Submission 098 Exercise and Sport Science Australia (PDF, 770 KB)
- Submission 099 Melanoma Insitute Australia (PDF, 266 KB)
- Submission 100 Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (PDF, 599 KB)
- Submission 101 Associate Professor Winston Liauw (PDF, 289 KB)
- Submission 102 NSW Rural Doctors Network (PDF, 411 KB)
- Submission 103 Health Services Union (PDF, 284 KB)
- Submission 104 Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Submission 105 Arthritis NSW (PDF, 219 KB)
- Submission 106 Cancer Voices NSW (PDF, 2.4 MB)
- Submission 107 Royal Australasian College of Physicians (PDF, 742 KB)
- Submission 108 Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand (PDF, 368 KB)
- Submission 109 Council for Intellectual Disability (PDF, 269 KB)
- Submission 110 Rural Doctors Association of NSW (PDF, 296 KB)
- Submission 111 Australian Physiotherapy Association (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Submission 112 Ronald McDonald House Charities Australia (PDF, 22 MB)
- Submission 113 NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (PDF, 9.6 MB)
- Submission 114 Australian College of Midwives (PDF, 909 KB)
- Submission 115 Asthma Australia (PDF, 423 KB)
- Submission 116 Uniting NSW.ACT (PDF, 679 KB)
- Submission 117 AHPRA (PDF, 250 KB)
- Submission 118 Private Healthcare Australia (PDF, 432 KB)
- Submission 119 EY (PDF, 4.6 MB)
- Submission 120 Honeysuckle Health (PDF, 277 KB)
- Submission 121 Ramsay Health Care Australia (PDF, 707 KB)
- Submission 122 Dental Services Operators Alliance (PDF, 182 KB)
- Submission 123 Amplar Health (PDF, 713 KB)
- Submission 124 Connected Medical Solutions (PDF, 468 KB)
- Submission 125 Australian Association of Gerontology and AAG Research Trust (PDF, 957 KB)
- Submission 126 Karitane (PDF, 900 KB)
- Submission 127 ForHealth (PDF, 731 KB)
- Submission 128 Edwards Lifesciences (PDF, 741 KB)
- Submission 129 Medical Technology Association of Australia (PDF, 2.5 MB)
- Submission 130 Nicole Gastrell (PDF, 133 KB)
- Submission 131 Alexis McMahon (PDF, 114 KB)
- Submission 132 Anonymous (PDF, 79 KB)
- Submission 133 Northern NSW LHD (PDF, 257 KB)
- Submission 134 Benjamin Gilmour (PDF, 118 KB)
- Submission 135 Nepean Blue Mountains LHD (PDF, 231 KB)
- Submission 136 Debbie Admoni (PDF, 91 KB)
- Submission 137 Health Infrastructure (PDF, 418 KB)
- Submission 138 Fiorina Gibbons (PDF, 125 KB)
- Submission 139 Dr Peter Lipski (PDF, 444 KB)
- Submission 140 Heather Smith (PDF, 76 KB)
- Submission 141 HealthShare NSW Redacted (PDF, 7.1 MB)
- Submission 142 David McPherson (PDF, 137 KB)
- Submission 144 Dr Ben Basger (PDF, 122 KB)
- Submission 145 eHealth NSW Redacted (PDF, 290 KB)
- Submission 146 NSW State Spinal Cord Injury Service Redacted (PDF, 144 KB)
- Submission 147 Associate Professor Michel Tchan (PDF, 21 MB)
- Submission 148 Sarah Auld (PDF, 279 KB)
- Submission 149 Laurence Hibbert (PDF, 210 KB)
- Submission 150 Professor Anthony Gill (PDF, 173 KB)
- Submission 151 Ken Barker (PDF, 248 KB)
- Submission 152 Denise Fry (PDF, 311 KB)
- Submission 153 NSW Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program Redacted (PDF, 511 KB)
- Submission 154 National Rural Health Alliance (PDF, 1 MB)
- Submission 155 Michael Brady (PDF, 234 KB)
- Submission 156 Trevor (PDF, 259 KB)
- Submission 157 Dr Gull Herzberg (PDF, 155 KB)
- Submission 158 A Professor Graham Reece (PDF, 20 MB)
- Submission 159 Elizabeth Atkins (PDF, 686 KB)
- Submission 160 Australian Society of Anaesthetists (PDF, 545 KB)
- Submission 161 Jill McGovern (PDF, 252 KB)
- Submission 162 Associate Professor James Mallows (PDF, 2.7 MB)
- Submission 163 Zac Chu (PDF, 360 KB)
- Submission 164 Dr Margaret Faux (PDF, 639 KB)
- Submission 165 Associate Professor Lukas Kairaitis (PDF, 4.3 MB)
- Submission 166 Dr Arthur Chesterfield Evans (PDF, 638 KB)
- Submission 167 Paediatric Urinary Incontinence Services CHW (PDF, 281 KB)
- Submission 168 Health Education and Training Institute (PDF, 514 KB)
- Submission 169 Agency for Clinical Innovation (PDF, 760 KB)
- Submission 170 Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia CHW (PDF, 16 MB)
- Submission 171 General Medicine Service CHW (PDF, 568 KB)
- Submission 172 Central Coast LHD (PDF, 420 KB)
- Submission 173 Mental Health Commission of NSW (PDF, 492 KB)
- Submission 174 Mental Health Carers NSW (PDF, 2.7 MB)
- Submission 175 Carolyn Wales (PDF, 164 KB)
- Submission 176 Consumer Leaders in Health Collective (PDF, 1.7 MB)
- Submission 177 Association of Professional Staffing Companies (PDF, 229 KB)
- Submission 178 Dr Amanda Cohn The Greens NSW (PDF, 118 KB)
- Submission 179 NSW Ambulance (PDF, 2 MB)
- Submission 180 Mid North Coast LHD (PDF, 442 KB)
- Submission 181 Senior Medical Staff Council SCH (PDF, 445 KB)
- Submission 182 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (PDF, 409 KB)
- Submission 183 Australian Indigenous Doctors Association (PDF, 538 KB)
- Submission 184 Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation (PDF, 1.5 MB)
- Submission 185 Medical Staff Council Executive CHW (PDF, 3.5 MB)
- Submission 186 NSW Poisons Information Centre CHW (PDF, 462 KB)
- Submission 187 Garvan Institute of Medical Research (PDF, 406 KB)
- Submission 188 Associate Professor Ann McCormack (PDF, 277 KB)
- Submission 189 Australian Pituitary Foundation (PDF, 192 KB)
- Submission 190 St Vincents Health Australia Redacted (PDF, 744 KB)
- Submission 191 The Pharmacy Guild of Australia NSW Branch (PDF, 562 KB)
- Submission 192 School of Population Health UNSW Redacted (PDF, 358 KB)
- Submission 193 Robert Heron Redacted (PDF, 127 KB)
- Submission 194 South Western Sydney LHD Medical Staff Council (PDF, 159 KB)
- Submission 195 Justin Clancy MP (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Submission 196 Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (PDF, 1 MB)
- Submission 197 Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PDF, 162 KB)
- Submission 198 NSW Ministerial Advisory Council on Ageing MACA NSW (PDF, 259 KB)
- Submission 199 Australian New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (PDF, 540 KB)
- Submission 200 Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health SARRAH (PDF, 751 KB)
- Submission 201 Dr Kenneth J Herington and Dr Justin M A Bowra (PDF, 659 KB)
- Submission 202 Behzad Eftekhar and Timothy Ang (PDF, 446 KB)
- Submission 203 Warren Hargreaves (PDF, 81 KB)
- Submission 204 Richard Hendrie (PDF, 327 KB)
- Submission 205 Jonathan Gibson (PDF, 159 KB)
- Submission 206 Mental Health Coordinating Council (PDF, 1 MB)
The deadline for submitting submissions has now closed. However, the Commissioner may still consider late submissions in exceptional circumstances. If you wish to seek an extension to make a late submission, please email [email protected].
Late submissions, if they have been arranged with the Inquiry team, may be lodged by email to [email protected].