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

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

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

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
• Submission to the Health and Environment Committee inquiry on Queensland's public health system

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

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

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

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 NSW CTP Consultation on Motor Accident Guidelines
• ESSA submission QLD WorkCover 2018
• ESSA submission RTWSA Fee consultation_2018
• ESSA Submission – Work-related Mental Health Guideline
• 2018/2019 Allied Health Table of Costs Review Workcover QLD
• Submission to the Victorian Workers’ Compensation System – Independent Review
• ESSA Submission NSW SIRA Health Outcomes Framework 2020
• WA Workers Compensation and Injury Management Bill 2021
• McDougall review recommendations, COVID-19 and future opportunities for personal injury schemes
• ESSA submission NSW Allied Health Recovery Request Form 2021
• WorkCover Qld Annual review of Allied Health Services Tables of Costs for 2022-23

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