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2026 Submissions

The Australian Private Hospitals Association (APHA) represents members' views through a variety of submissions to governments and reviews impacting the sector...

29th June 2026
APHA Targeted Consultation Response on IV Fluid Guidance June 2026 [PDF 192.4 kb]
APHA is broadly supportive of the draft guidance and its objectives. The documents are clinically sound, well structured, and provide a useful national reference point for safe, appropriate and sustainable IV fluid management. APHA's feedback is directed to ensuring the final guidance is practical for private hospital settings and clearly reflects the distinction between organisational systems that support safe care and the clinical judgement and accountability of treating clinicians. Addressing the matters raised in this submission would strengthen the guidance and assist its consistent implementation across the private hospital sector.
22nd June 2026
APHA PHI Sunsetting Submission June 2026 [PDF 235.6 kb]
APHA submits that the remaking of the sunsetting PHI instruments is an important opportunity to correct longstanding structural deficiencies that have disadvantaged private hospitals. A simple administrative remake without substantive reform is inadequate. The specific amendments recommended in this submission are grounded in the actual text of the instruments as currently in force, and are designed to address real operational and financial impacts on private hospitals.
16th June 2026
APHA Surgical Guides and Bio-models Post-Listing Review Draft Report Consultation Submission [PDF 173.8 kb]
The APHA document is intended to provide feedback on the Department of Health, Disability, and Ageing's draft report on the surgical guides and bio-models post-listing review.
30th January 2026
2026 Federal Budget Submission [PDF 751.2 kb]
The APHA's 2026 Federal Budget Submission canvasses key reform initiatives, as well as areas to repair the viability of private hospitals left to languish at the hands of unscrupulous and profiteering health insurance companies...