Media

March 2026 – Day Hospitals Australia releases its Blueprint for Reform to reduce public waiting lists and place downward pressure on private health insurance premiums – click here for the summary
January 2026 – Day Hospitals Australia congratulates Minister Butler and State and Territory Health Ministers on the $220bn funding agreement for public hospitals over the next five years
July 2025 – Private Healthcare’s Fork in the Road
March 2025 – Day Hospitals Australia demands urgent funding reforms to avert further hospital closures
July 2022 – Day Hospital Viability Propositions
March 2020 – Hospital Capacity to fight COVID-19 will be lost
May 2020 – Day hospitals: leading the recovery post COVID-19
October 2020 – Private Health Insurers Premium Increases 1 October 2020

2025

12 September 2025 – 10 News Adelaide regarding workforce challenges – click here
22 July 2025 – Hospital & Healthcare regarding Sustainability of the day hospital sector – click here
4 July 2025 – 6PR’s Oliver Peterson about former Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt’s proposal that state governments should pay private hospitals to use their beds for public patients – click here
4 July 2025 – ABC News about Bupa’s ACCC fine and broader implications for the PHI industry
- Radio interview – click here
- TV interview – click here
- News story – click here
June 2025 – Phil O’Neil at 2GB about specialised day hospital care in Ireland and Brazil – and what Australia can learn – click here
28 May 2025 – Hospital + Healthcare Website – Immediate action needed for private hospital sector – click here
10 March 2025 – The Pulse with Rob Cameron – How the Day Hospitals can assist with alleviating pressure on the public hospital system – click here
4 March 2025 – The West Australian – ways to reduce the surgery waiting list in Western Australia – click here
23 January 2025 – Interview with Ron Wilson on Sydney 2SM’s Breakfast Program about ways to reduce healthcare bills during the cost of living crisis – click here

2024

October 2024 – QPS Benchmarking podcast. Members can watch the podcast by clicking here
13 September 2024 – ABC News Wide Bay – Children in regional areas enduring months in pain while waiting for urgent dental care – click here for the TV interview and click here for the accompanying article
19 April 2024 – The Australian – Day surgery on the table to ease hospital crisis – click here
12 April 2024 – 6PR Perth – health insurers not passing on profits to hospitals – click here
7 March 2024 – ABC Perth WA Mornings – PHI premiums and Prostheses List Reforms – click here (interview @ 1 hour 37 mins)

2023

21 December 2023 – The West Live, How to solve elective surgery wait times – click here
December 2023 – Australian College of Nursing Hive Magazine editorial “A Sustainable Health Care System – The future needs to embrace the day hospital sector” – click here
13 November 2023 – Stephen Cenatiempo, 2CC Canberra – The Importance of Private Health Insurance – click here (fast forward to 1 hr 9 minutes for the interview)
24 July 2023 – 6PR Perth interview – click here
24 July 2023 – 6PR Perth – Hospital change could save Government half a billion dollars – click here
June 2023 – Hospital and Healthcare – click here
26 May 2023 – Women’s Agenda Soap Box – click here
22 May – Hospital & Healthcare – The Case for Separation – click here
15 April 2023 – The West Australian Op Ed, Jane Griffiths – click here
16 March 2023 – Stephen Cenatiempo 2CC Canberra
15 February 2023 – Kim Napier, Northern Tasmania ABC Radio regarding grommet surgery waiting lists – click here
18 January 2023 – Steve Price, Sky News – discussing how day hospitals can help reduce elective surgery waiting lists – click here
11 January 2023 (prerecording) – Pat Panetta, Australia Overnight 2GB and / or 3AW – How will healthcare services be impacted in 2023? – click here

2022

11 January 2022 – Stephen Cenatiempo, 2 CC Canberra – How will healthcare services be impacted in 2023? – click here
20 December 2022 – Rod Henshaw, 2CC Canberra – Events that have impacted healthcare in 2022 – click here
2 November 2022 – Natalie Barr, Sunrise on Seven – regarding the role of day hospitals in elective surgery – click here
27 September 2022 – Rob Cameron, 94.7 Pulse FM in Geelong – click here
3 August 2022 – Rebecca Levingston at ABC Radio Brisbane – click here
21 March 2022 – Sofie Formica, 4BC Brisbane regarding ambulance ramping and ways the day hospital sector could assist – click here
7 March 2022 – Robert Cameron from 94.7 Pulse FM in Geelong to discuss the role of day hospitals in elective surgery in regional Victoria – click here
10 February 2022 – Oliver Peterson on Perth Live on 6PR882 to discuss elective surgery restrictions in WA – click here
1 February 2022 – Sonya Feldhoff at ABC Adelaide regarding elective surgery restrictions – click here (Jane’s interview is between 21.21 and 24.55)
2 January 2022 – Dr Ginni Mansberg at 2GB regarding the decline in admissions for skin cancers and joint replacements – click here

2021

15 October 2021 – ABC Radio Statewide Drive about regional surgery restrictions and the Viability Agreement in Victoria – click here
15 October 2021 – 3AW’s Neil Mitchell about private patients being denied surgery – click here
1 September 2021 – 9 News Perth about day hospitals and ways they can assist after a decision to postpone elective surgeries in WA. Click here to view the accompanying article and watch her interview.
20 August 2021 – The West: “Day hospitals can offer a way to help tackle nursing crisis” – click here
19 July 2021 – Oliver Peterson on Perth Live on 6PR882 regarding ways the day hospital sector can support the health system in WA. To read the accompanying news article click here and to listen to the radio interview click here.

For all media enquiries please contact Jane Griffiths, CEO of Day Hospitals Australia on 08 9332 3606 or by email here.

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