About the Clinical Advisory Committee
Clinical Advisory Committee members provide high-level technical and clinical advice to the Pricing Authority on a range of issues, such as activity based funding, classification development, and IHPA policy development, and inform the National Efficient Price and National Efficient Cost.
The Clinical Advisory Committee is a statutory committee established under Part 4.10 of the National Health Reform Act 2011.
The functions of the committee are described in s. 177:
- to advise the Pricing Authority in relation to developing and specifying classification systems for health care and other services provided by public hospitals
- to advise the Pricing Authority in relation to matters that:
- relate to the functions of the Pricing Authority, and
- are referred to the Clinical Advisory Committee by the Pricing Authority
- to do anything incidental to or conducive to the performance of the above functions.
Membership
The members of the committee are appointed by the Australian Government Minister for Health, and are drawn from a range of clinical specialties and backgrounds to ensure the committee represents a wide range of clinical expertise.
Appointments are based on individual expertise rather than as a representative of an organisation, peak body or jurisdiction. The Remuneration Tribunal determines remuneration.
The Chair of the committee, Associate Professor Alasdair MacDonald, reports to the Australian Government Minister for Health, and is supported by IHPA staff.
Name | Position | Specialty | Meetings eligible | Meetings attended |
A/Prof Alasdair MacDonald | Chair | Internal Medicine | 3 | 3 |
Prof Gerard Carroll | Member | Cardiology/Rural | 3 | 2 |
Ms Jan Erven | Member | Occupational Therapy | 3 | 3 |
Mr Anthony Graham Fish | Member | Allied Health | 3 | 2 |
Prof Leon Flicker | Member | Geriatrics/Indigenous Health | 3 | 1 |
A/Prof Liza Heslop | Member | Nursing/Pregnancy and Childbirth | 3 | 0 |
Dr Philip Hoyle | Member | Administration | 3 | 1 |
A/Prof Louis Irving | Member | Respiratory/Indigenous Health | 3 | 1 |
Dr Amod Karnik | Member | Intensive Care Medicine | 3 | 2 |
Dr Amanda Ling | Member | Administration | 3 | 2 |
Ms Amber Polles | Member | Pharmacy | 3 | 3 |
Prof Sally Tracy | Member | Midwifery | 3 | 1 |
A/Prof Melinda Truesdale | Member | Emergency Medicine | 3 | 3 |
A/Prof Paul Varghese | Member | Geriatrics/Rehabilitation | 3 | 3 |
Dr Ruth Vine | Member | Psychiatry | 3 | 1 |
A/Prof Andrew Wei | Member | Haematology | 3 | 3 |
A/Prof Bernard Whitfield | Member | Ear Nose and Throat Surgery/ Injuries/Trauma | 3 | 1 |
A/Prof Daryl Williams | Member | Anaesthesia and Pain Management | 3 | 0 |
W/Prof Fiona Wood | Member | Burns | 3 | 1 |
Dr Jo Wright | Member | Rural Medical Practice | 3 | 2 |
Dr Kathryn Zeitz | Member | Nursing | 3 | 2 |
Dr Phil Sargent | Member | Paediatrics | 1 | 0 |
A/Prof Virginia Plummer | Member | Nursing | 1 | 1 |
Clinical Advisory Committee meetings 2019–20
5 August 2019
4 November 2019
30 March 2020
Visit
https://www.transparency.gov.au/annual-reports/independent-hospital-pricing-authority/reporting-year/2019-20-12