Submissions and Lobbying

ESSA provides input to a wide variety of consultation papers, guidelines and other submissions.

Below is a list of recent consultations and papers that ESSA has contributed to.

Aged Care

• ESSA Submission to Royal Commission Aged Care Quality Safety August 2019
• ESSA Submission to the Department of Health for a New Residential Aged Care Funding Model May 2019
• Submission to the Queensland Government – Inquiry into aged care, end-of-life and palliative care and voluntary assisted dying 2019
• Submission to the Department of Health: Streamlined Consumer Assessment for Aged Care February 2019
• Submission to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety – Adelaide Hearing 5 – Draft Propositions May 2020
• Submission to Aged Care Worker Regulation Scheme Consultation Paper June 2020

Chronic Conditions

• 2023 VIC - Capability Framework for Victorian Cancer Services
• 2023 National - Parliamentary Inquiry into Diabetes

COVID-19

• Submission to the Select Committee Inquiry on COVID-19
• Submission to the Select Committee Inquiry on COVID-19 - Summary and Recommendations
• Submission to the Queensland Parliament - Inquiry into the Queensland Government’s health response to COVID-19
• Submission to the Victorian Parliament - Inquiry into the Victorian Government's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Submission to the ACT Parliament – Select Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic Response
• Submission to the Federal Government: Inquiry into Long COVID and Repeated COVID infections November 2022

Disability

• Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, Health Care for People with Cognitive Disability March 2020

DVA

• ESSA Letter to DVA Re: Mental Health
• Exercise & Sports Science Australia position on Exercise Physiology for DVA patients with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

GST

• Pre-Budget Submission 2020-2021
• Pre-Budget Submission 2021-2022
• 2024 - Nat - Federal Pre-budget submission 2024-25

Government

• Victorian Department of Health and Human Services restructure
• Tasmanian Health Service leadership restructure
• ESSA Response to National Sports Plan
• 2018 – Income and Work Census submission form ESSA
• 2018-19 Federal Government Pre-Budget Submission
• Submission on the Health Workforce 2040 Strategy & Our Healthcare Future
• Submission to the Select Committee into the Obesity Epidemic in Australia
• ESSA Submission to the Tasmanian Rural Health Services Inquiry January 2021
• ESSA Submission to the NSW Inquiry Health outcomes and access to health and hospital services in rural, regional and remote New South Wales January 2021
• ESSA response to the Qld Rural and Remote Health & Wellbeing Strategy 2021-26
• ESSA National Exercise Physiology Report submitted to IHPA_2021
• Submission to IHPA Draft Work Program and Corporate plan 2021-22
• Submission to the Health and Environment Committee inquiry on Queensland's public health system
• Our Healthcare Future: Advancing Tasmania’s Health 2022
• Submission to IHPA - Exercise Physiology (40.65) Tier 2 Non Admitted Services Classification_2022
• Submission to IHPA Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2023-24
• 2023-24 Pre-Budget Submission, Tasmania
• Queensland Obesity Prevention Strategy and Action Plan 2023-2025
• Equally Well: National Initiatives and Activities Scan 2022
• 2023 Tas - Long-Term Healthcare in Tasmania in 2040
• Queensland Workforce Strategy Submission
• 2023 NSW – Special Commission of Inquiry into Healthcare Funding in NSW
• 2023 Nat – Scope of Practice Review: Unleashing the Potential Consultation 1 Online Submission
• 2024 Nat – Scope of Practice Review: Unleashing the Potential Consultation 2 Online Submission

Health Care Homes

• ESSA Letter Re: Health Care Homes

Medicare

• ESSA Submission to the MBS Review for the attention of the Allied Health Reference Group June 2018
• ESSA Response to the MBS Review Taskforce Specialist and Consultant Physician Consultation Clinical Committee Report December 2018
• ESSA Response to the MBS Review from the Pain Management Clinical Committee Report April 2019
• ESSA Response to the MBS Review Taskforce Mental Health Reference Group Report June 2019
• ESSA Response to the MBS Review Taskforce Allied Health Reference Group Report June 2019

Mental Health

• ESSA submission Accessibility and quality of mental health services in rural and remote Australia May 2018
• ESSA submission Public consultation Work-related Mental Health Guideline 2018
• ESSA submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs: Accessibility and quality of mental health services in rural and remote Australia
• ESSA submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Mental Health April 2019
• Submission to the Draft report: Productivity Commission into Mental Health January 2020
• ESSA Submission to the Select Committee on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention March 2021
• Inquiry into the opportunities to improve mental health outcomes for Queenslanders 2022
• 2023 SA - Mental Health 72 Rehabilitation Inpatients Bed Model of Care
• 2023 NSW - Parliamentary inquiry into Equity, accessibility and appropriate delivery of outpatient and community mental health care in NSW

NDIS

• General issues around the implementation and performance of the NDIS
• ESSA submission NDIS 2017
• NDIA’s response to the Independent Pricing Review 2017
• The IPR report has been released in March 2018 and NDIA have responded
• ESSA Market Readiness Submission 2018
• ESSA Thin Markets Submission 2019
• Review of the NDIS Act 2013 and the new NDIS Participant Service Guarantee October 2019
• ESSA Evidence Report for NDIS Category Change
• Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme Inquiry into NDIS Workforce NDIS Senate enquiry into NDIS workforce May 2020
• Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme Inquiry into the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission July 2020
• Submission to the Select Committee on Autism July 2020
• Submission to the Queensland Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into the National Disability Insurance Scheme market in Queensland August 2020
• Exercise & Sports Science Australia submission NDIS Annual Price Review 2020-21 Issues Paper
• Submission on Support for Decision Making in the National Disability Insurance Scheme
• Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme into the NDIS National Workforce Plan August 2021
• Submission on National Disability Insurance Scheme Annual Pricing Review 2021-22
• Current Scheme Implementation and Forecasting for the NDIS
• Submission on the National Disability Insurance Scheme Annual Pricing Review 2022-23
• NDIS General Issues Inquiry 2023 - Joint Standing Committee
• 2024-Nat-NDIS Annual Pricing Review 2023-2024

Patient Safety and Quality

• Patient Safety and Quality in Primary Care

Private Health Insurance

• Exercise & Sports Science Australia Submission: Private health insurance consultations
• Value and Affordability of PHI and Out of Pocket Costs
• Review of the Australian Government Rebate on Private Health Insurance for Natural Therapies 2019-20
• Submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on the Private Healthcare Australia Limited’s application for authorisation – AA1000487
• ESSA Submission PHI Reform Second Wave

Sports Science

• Inquiry into the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment Bill 2014
• Review of Australia’s Sports Integrity Arrangements – Developing a Government Response
• ESSA’s response to the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Enhancing Australia’s Anti-Doping Capability) Bill 2019
• ESSA's response to the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Sport Integrity Australia) Bill 2019
• National Sports Injury Strategy – Online survey responses

Telehealth

• ESSA Briefing Paper prepared for Private Healthcare Australia on the clinical effectiveness of Exercise Physiology Teleconsultations

Workers Compensation

ESSA has not received permission from all regulators to publish submissions related to certain topics. These include submissions on fee reviews with ReturntoWork SA, State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) in NSW and Transport Accident Commission (TAC) in Victoria.

• 2020 Victoria – Response to questions on Victorian Workers’ Compensation System for Independent Review
• 2020 NSW - SIRA Health Outcomes Framework
• 2021 SA - Annual Fee Review
• 2021 WA – Workers Compensation and Injury Management Bill
• 2021 NSW – McDougall Review, COVID-19 and future opportunities for personal injury schemes
• 2021 NSW – Allied Health Recovery Request Form
• 2021 NSW – Enhancing SIRA’s Research Program
• 2022 SA - Annual Fee Review
• 2022 Qld – Annual review of Allied Health Services Table of Costs 2022-23
• 2022 NSW – Allied health treatment request form and explanatory notes
• 2022 NSW – State Insurance and Care Governance Amendment Regulation
• 2023 SA - Annual Fee Review
• 2023 Qld - Program Management Plan and User Guide
• 2023 NSW - Guidelines for the provision of relevant services (health related services
• 2023 NSW - SIRA draft Australian Clinical Guidelines for Health Professionals Managing People with Whiplash - Associated Disorders
• 2023 NSW – Model of Care for the Management of Low Back Pain
• 2023 WA - Workers Compensation and Injury Management ACT 2003 Injury Management Return to Work Consultation Paper 6
• 2023 ESSA White Paper – Model of Care for the Management of Low Back Pain
• 2024 SA - Annual Fee Review
• 2024 WA - WorkCover WA Workers Compensation and Injury Management Act – Fees Order for Allied Health Services Paper 25

ESSA Input: National Health Plans & Policies

• National Asthma Strategy 2018
• Victorian Model of Care for Osteoarthritis, Hip & Knee
• Discussion Paper for Consultation: Rural Allied Health Quality, Access and Distribution
• National Injury Prevention Strategy Submission 2020
• ESSA response: Healthy Tasmania - the next five years
• SA Rural Allied Health Workforce Plan 2021-26
• Health outcomes and access to health and hospital services in rural, regional and remote New South Wales
• Review of the Osteoarthritis of the Knee Clinical Care Standard - Targeted Consultation