Australian Medical Association

AMA President Dr Steve Hambleton addresses the AMA Parliamentary Dinner. He reviews the Government's National Health Reform Agreement, discusses the AMAs health reform plan, congratulates the Government on plain packaging legislation, and raises the health of asylum seekers.

AMA President Dr Steve Hambleton addresses the National Press Club for his first official speech as AMA President. Dr Hambleton highlights the AMAs health reform plans and criticises the Government for ditching its visionary health reform agenda after it dropped plans for a single funder, failed to deliver new hospital beds and removed a surgery guarantee.

The National Health and Hospitals Network

Good morning.

My subject today is the Government’s National Health and Hospitals Network.

If this speech was being delivered next week, it could possibly be a very different speech depending on the election result.

Labor and the Coalition have different views on the future of the National Health and Hospitals Network.

It is our job at the AMA to make sure both sides are serious about health reform.

AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, addresses the AMA Parliamentary Dinner, Great Hall, Parliament House, Wednesday, 10 March 2010

AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, outlines details of the AMA Priority Investment Plan for Australia's Health System.

Speech to 'Australia's Health’, The Congress on National Health Reform, Parliament House of Victoria, 30 November 2009