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Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs’ Inquiry into the Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Bill 2009

• Submission from RACS (June 2009) (PDF 46Kb)

Submission to the Productivity Commission regarding Public and Private Hospital Systems

• Submission from RACS (July 2009) (PDF 39Kb)
  

Submission to the Australian Medical Council regarding an application to have cosmetic medical practice recognised as a medical specialty

• Submission from RACS (June 2009) (PDF 75Kb)

Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs’ Inquiry into Compliance Audits on Medicare Benefits

• Submission from RACS (May 2009) (PDF 49Kb)

Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs’ Inquiry into National Registration and Accreditation for Doctors and Other Health Workers

• Submission from RACS (April 2009) (PDF 394Kb)

Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs Inquiry into Gene Patents

• Submission from RACS (March 2009)

National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission Interim Report

• Submission from RACS (March 2009)

Council of Australian Governments regarding Proposed National Accreditation and Registration Scheme for the Health Professions

Submissions from RACS 2008-2009

• Response to the exposure draft of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law 2009 (PDF 33Kb)
• Accreditation Arrangements Submission
• Complaints Arrangements Submission
• Information Sharing and Privacy Submission
• National Registration and Accreditation Submission

Preventative Health Taskforce

• Submission from RACS (January 2009)

RACS Submission to National Health and Hospital’s Reform Commission

• National Health and Hospital’s Reform Commission, June 2008  (PDF 158Kb) 
• NHHRC Additional submission, July 2008 (PDF 34Kb)

Submissions to the Queensland Health Commission

• Victorian Quality Council - Safety and quality improvement framework
• CanMEDS 2000 Project
• Standard for Credentialling and Defining the Scope of Clinical Practice
• AMC - Application Procedures and Requirements for Specialist Assessment
• RACS - Review of the Assessment of Overseas-Trained Surgeons, April 2005
• Submission by the RACS - Cover Letter

Submission to Performance of Podiatric Surgery in NSW

• RACS - Cover letter to NSW Health
• RACS - NSW Health Submission

Productivity Commission

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) welcomes the Productivity Commission’s research study into the Australian health workforce. It is time a sensible, independent and evidence based approach to workforce issues was undertaken to better inform a debate that to date has been characterised by political point scoring, scapegoating and key opinion leaders repeating urban myths as fact. It is time for some clarity, data and a shared understanding of the real problems before the increasing frustration felt by those working in the healthcare system makes it too late for cooperative solutions to be developed

• Productivity Commission Report

Australian Medical Council

• AMC Reports

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission

• ACCC Reports