Studies from University of Sydney Reveal New Findings on Managed Care (How Patient Centric Is Health Policy Development? the Case of the Parliamentary Inquiry Into Sleep Health Awareness In Australia): Managed Care

2022 APR 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Data detailed on Managed Care have been presented. According to news reporting out of Sydney, Australia, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Parliamentary inquiries into health-related issues empower everyday Australians to contribute to the development and reform of health policy. We explored how patient and family/carers concerns are translated by this process, using a less well-known disease, narcolepsy, as an example.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Sydney, “Written submissions made to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Sleep Health Awareness in Australia 2018 by self-identified patients or family/carers with narcolepsy (n = 13) were extracted and thematically analysed using the Framework Approach. Each submission was systematically coded and abstracted into emergent themes before being evaluated against the final policy recommendations. Although patients and their family/carers prioritised issues that affected their daily lives (i.e. mental health sequela, workplace accommodations), the policy recommendations in the report focused mainly on issues of healthcare infrastructure, funding and engagement. Our analysis highlighted several barriers that patients and their family/carers face when contributing to this part of healthcare policy formation. Our findings suggest that the parliamentary inquiry process in its current form is not an ideal vehicle by which patients and family/carers can contribute or influence healthcare policy. Despite calling for submissions from patients and their family/carers, the final report and subsequent health policy recommendations made by the inquiry do not appear to be patient-centric or reflective of the submissions written by these stakeholders.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Increased transparency, development of processes to balance stakeholder priorities and improved accessibility for stakeholders to participate are needed if health-related parliamentary inquiries are to produce healthcare policy that ultimately meets the needs of patients and family/carers.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: How Patient Centric Is Health Policy Development? the Case of the Parliamentary Inquiry Into Sleep Health Awareness In Australia. Australian Health Review, 2022;46(2):233-243. Australian Health Review can be contacted at: Csiro Publishing, Unipark, Bldg 1, Level 1, 195 Wellington Rd, Locked Bag 10, Clayton, Vic 3168, Australia. (CSIRO Publishing - www.publish.csiro.au; Australian Health Review - http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/270.htm)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Aaron Schokman, University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Central Clinical School, Sydney, Nsw, Australia. Additional authors for this research include Nick Glozier, Yu Sun Bin, Melissa Aji, Kristina Kairaitis and Janet M. Y. Cheung.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1071/ah21156. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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