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  • Patients the punch line in April Fools' joke
    With the biggest premium hikes in a decade about to hit family budgets, especially at a time when health insurers are banking record profits, the federal government cannot abrogate it's responsibility for where those funds end up...
  • Ombudsman bells cat on health insurer failures
    The Ombudsman lays it out - premiums going up, private hospitals shortchanged and insured patients suffering due to massive exclusions in their insurance cover, meaning they are paying more but getting less for it. The fix is simple...
  • 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 costs and ensuring that insured patients in private hospitals remain fully covered...

Hot Issues

  • Insurers wield the scalpel
    Vertical integration. The conflict of interest when the funder of healthcare is also the healthcare provider is as obvious as it is disturbing. It's taking root in Australia and flying below the government's radar. Our Op Ed in the Herald Sun..
  • 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...

Australian Private Hospitals Association

43rd National Congress
Adelaide 2026

26-28 May

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Fact

70% of planned surgeries take place in private hospitals

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Upcoming Events

15 May 2026

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...

21 May 2026

APHA Psychiatry Committee

Mental Health takes on new focus with the APHA committed to driving the needs of patients and the hospitals they rely on in a concerted push over the next 12 months...

26 May 2026

APHA 43rd National Congress

The APHA 43rd National Congress brings Australia's private health leaders together for two days of insight, innovation and collaboration, creating a dynamic forum to shape the future of private healthcare.

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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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