Joint Primary Health Care Roundtable Communiqué
Tuesday, June 16
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 today 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 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.
Endorsing Organisations:
Australian College of Mental Health Nurses
Australian College of Midwives
Australian College of Nurse Practitioners
Australian General Practice Network
Australian Medical Association
Australian Nursing Federation
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council
Australian Practice Nurses Association
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Royal College of Nursing, Australia
Rural Doctors Association of Australia
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
The College of Nursing
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