The traditional 20th century model for delivering primary care no longer works, US expert Professor Kevin Grumbach (pictured, right) told a recent HARC-sponsored symposium on the Patient-Centred Medical Home. This new model, where patients are enrolled with a primary care practice that coordinates their care, has seen success in the US and is being discussed as a way forward for Australian primary care. Read our wrap of the event.

Professor Nick Zwar, from the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at UNSW, outlines how the Patient-Centred Medical Home model works, and what it could mean for the way primary healthcare is delivered in NSW and Australia.

New research drawing on data from the Sax Institute's 45 and Up Study has revealed that greater use of GP services in the final years of life is not linked to lower hospital costs in the six-month end-of-life period.

International expert in health performance measurement, Professor Fabrizio Carinci from the University of Surrey (pictured, left), led a recent HARC roundtable on performance measurement with health decision makers. In this video he discusses why public performance reporting is so important, and outlines some of the challenges in comparative public reporting at a global level.

Many important questions in public health remain unanswered due to the research community’s preoccupation with randomised controlled trials (RCTs). This was one of the messages to emerge from the recent seminar "Physical activity for public health: in pursuit of rigorous evaluation in the real world", co-organised by The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, the Prevention Research Collaboration and the Sax Institute. Read our wrap of the event.

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