Community-based care: Professor Judith Smith to give keynote at Australian conference
Will shifting care from hospitals into the community save money? Her keynote will consider some of the assumptions on which policy decisions are based.
In a keynote address at the biennial conference of the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand, Professor Judith Smith will be speaking on the topic "Making the Shift: Why community-based care will never be the cheaper option."
She will examine the long-standing international policy interest in making a shift of care and services from hospital into community-based settings, exploring and challenging assumptions upon which this desired shift is based – in particular the belief that community-based care will deliver cost savings and reduce pressures on emergency demand for hospital services.
The theme of the conference is "Shifting Priorities: Balancing acute and primary care services". The conference is hosted by the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation and will feature a mixture of workshops, symposia, keynote speeches and debate, as well as providing health professionals and researchers with the opportunity to discuss the future of sustainable, person centred and evidence-based care.
To read more about the event please visit the conference website or follow the Twitter hashtag #HSR17 – Judith's talk will be on Wednesday, 1 November.