Traveled to Melbourne to attend the Productivity Commission public hearings inquiry into Human Services Reforms. At the hearing we were allocated 30 minutes to address and answer questions from the Commissioners. It is heartening to have our Community Based Palliative Care model scrutinised by economists whose comments and questions included:
” there’s a lot of magic in this very best localised service, and for what it’s worth, something that we are struggling with is the difference between supporting the local where the magic exists and having a system where you don’t – it’s not determined by luck that you are dying in the place where there is a magic local service for that….. And you know, in my mind is, we’re in Melbourne today. I’m off to a suburb in Melbourne. How do I make this work? “ Commissioner Sean Innis
