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  • Deflection doesn't absolve insurers on gap costs
    A massive 8.7 million people with hospital insurance, or a record 69.5% of all hospital-insured people, now have exclusions in their cover - that's up 30%, or two million people, in five years. The insurers are responsible for massive patient gaps...
  • Prioritise public patients in public hospitals: peak bodies
    Private patients taking up public hospital beds is at epidemic proportions. While 284,987 public patients are stranded on waiting lists, public hospitals admitted 804,976 private patients. In a joint statement, APHA and CHA call for two key reforms...
  • Outlawing phoenix policies from insurance cowboys
    Private hospitals support government reforms to "outlaw" phoenix policies that slug unwitting insurance customers, but warn the legislative changes need to go further to criminalise the practice and bolster the public interest provisions...

Hot Issues

  • Insurers wrecking the mental health mission
    The mental health crisis is worsening. Insurance profits are up, psychiatric hospitals are closing, public hospitals can't cope, patients are falling through the cracks and the government shrugs its shoulders. Our Op Ed in the Daily Telegraph...
  • Mandatory Code of Conduct essential for regulating health insurance companies
    APHA's column for Australian Doctor magazine details the unconscionable contracting tactics private health insurers stoop to so they can deny patients the care they need and short-change private hospitals on payments for treatment...
  • Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement Review
    Australia's private acute psychiatric hospitals treat patients with moderate-to-severe mental health issues - in all 61% of psychiatric hospitalisations. Private hospitals are integral to addressing suicide prevention. Our submission to the Review...

Australian Private Hospitals Association

43rd National Congress
Adelaide 2026

26-28 May

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Fact

81.5% of rehabilitation takes place in private hospitals

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Upcoming Events

27 November 2025

APHA Council - State Reps

The State Representatives on the APHA Council meet to raise state-based issues, developments and responses to current and emerging issues...

9 December 2025

APHA Board Meeting

The Board will meet to canvass the issues and approaches confronting private hospitals, while providing input and advice on APHA activities and priorities...

16 December 2025

PPHDRAS Committee

Since 2002 the APHA has produced the Private Psychiatric Hospitals Data Reporting and Analysis Service, collecting in-depth information on trends, developments and delivery of acute mental health by private hospitals...

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1.66 million medical treatments a year, inc. 54% of chemotherapy

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Why choose private?

When it comes to your family's health, you want the best doctor, in a world-class state-of-the-art hospital suited to your needs, in a timeframe of NOW!

Choose your specialist

Private hospital care means you get to choose the leading specialists who will deliver your care. Whether it is maternity care where your obstetrician and midwife will be with you every step of the way from pregnancy to post-partum or elective surgery where your specialist delivers all of your care.

Building a relationship with a specialist and their team who will deliver on your needs is vital, and that indepth, personalised attention to detail is what sets private hospitals apart.

No waiting times

Going private means you decide when your surgery or treatment will be. You and your doctor choose the date that best suits your particular needs, so your procedure is performed much faster than through the public system and is focused on what works for you.

That means no waiting times for surgery in the private hospitals, where every effort is made to ensure your surgery is done quickly, smoothly and with the highest possible level of quality and professional care.

Private room

Let's face it, no-one wants to be in hospital, but if you have to you want to be comfortable. Private hospitals take care of the details that make your hospital stay the best it can be, including private rooms, private bathrooms, tv services and ordering your own food.

Private hospitals know new mums want their partner with them and their baby, they recognise parents need support in the first weeks of welcoming their bundle of joy – just some of the many benefits of going private.

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