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  • Government scraps eye injection change amid warnings patients worse off
    The APHA welcomes the Federal Government's decision to abandon changes to intravitreal eye injections, saving patients from hefty out-of-pocket and ensuring that insured patients ion private hospitals remain fully covered...
  • Time for government to do what it said it would do
    Time's up! The Government has to now follow through. Rhetoric must give way to putting out the flames reducing Australia's once renowned public-private hospital system to embers. The Minister pledged the solution a year ago, now it's time to act...
  • Systemic underfunding of private hospitals continues
    Private hospital utilisation is now above pre-Covid levels, but the benefits ratio paid by insurers is nowhere near the pre-Covid 90% benchmark. The facts make a mockery of claims that benefits are lagging due to under-utilisation...

Hot Issues

  • Strengthening the sustainability of Australia's private hospital system
    APHA and CHA's Joint Policy Paper calls for a 90% benefits ratio guarantee, a Mandatory Code of Conduct for the insurance contracting regime and 50/50 funding with the Commonwealth for 2026 nurse wage increases...
  • Profit put before patients
    With Minister Butler's 2026 private health insurance premium hike decision looming, APHA says this year's increase must not be another profit haul for insurers. Our Opinion Editorial published in the Herald-Sun and Courier-Mail newspapers...
  • APHA response to draft Private National Efficient Price
    The Government's first cut at a PNEP is a mess, posing more problems than solutions. It is riddled with errors, false assumptions, omissions and drives a race to the bottom on lowest costs at the expense of quality healthcare...
  • 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...

Australian Private Hospitals Association

43rd National Congress
Adelaide 2026

26-28 May

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Fact

61% of acute mental healthcare is provided by private hospitals

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Upcoming Events

18 March 2026

APHA Council Meeting

All members of the APHA Council will gather for the second meeting of the year to canvass the issues, concerns and opportunities for private hospitals and the priorities for the Association...

19 March 2026

APHA Rehabilitation Committee

The Committee promotes the role played by APHA members in the provision of quality and comprehensive rehabilitation services. It is currently reviewing policies and reform options for contracting with insurers...

23 March 2026

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...

Fact

81.5% of rehabilitation takes place in private hospitals

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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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