Tim Woodruff is President of the Doctors Reform Society, an organisation of doctors and medical students supporting health care reforms to ensure justice, equity and quality care for all regardless of social or economic status.
This article proposes a 'cooperative federalist' approach to funding and workforce integration with the aim of improving primary care across Australia over 5 to 10 years.
Tim Woodruff of the Doctors Reform Society argues that the fee for service contribution to the inappropriate use of health services has not been considered adequately and that the comparitive inefficiencies of the private sector vs the public sector are ignored.