What went wrong with Health Care Homes?
A government-commissioned review has laid bare the flaws in the rollout of the troubled scheme, introduced by then health minister Sussan Ley
The Health Care Homes trial has demonstrated that capitation will not work if it is mandatory for GPs, although patients of practices that have stuck with it are so far happy with their care.
That’s the message of a review into the troubled beginnings of the Federal Government’s capitation model for chronic disease care in general practice.
The report, commissioned by the Department of Health and published online this week, makes for relatively grim reading.
It found, on the numbers alone, the trial fell far short from what was announced in 2016 by then-Minister for Health Sussan Ley, as she promised the single biggest health reform since the introduction of Medicare.
