Research Action Award winner tackles big health policy issue

2016 Research Action Award Winner Kees van Gool

Sax Institute Research Action Award winner Associate Professor Kees van Gool is undertaking new research into the Medicare Safety Net, that he hopes can help inform the future design of social health insurance programs to ensure they are equitable and sustainable. Associate Professor van Gool, Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Economics Research and … Read more

HARC scholars focus on challenge of reducing clinical variation in healthcare

Five future healthcare leaders are set to embark on research in areas ranging from responding to the threat of antimicrobial resistance to tackling clinical variation in cancer care, after being awarded 2017 HARC scholarships. HARC (Health Alliance for Research Collaboration) is a collaboration between the Sax Institute, the Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC), the Agency for Clinical Innovation … Read more

Primary care commissioning: what works?

Findings of a Sax Institute Evidence Check review on the topical issue of commissioning primary healthcare services have been published in the Australian Journal of Primary Health. The Evidence Check was commissioned by the NSW Ministry of Health to assist in assessing evidence on what forms of commissioning would support best value investment for primary … Read more