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Peter Breadon

Peter Breadon

Health Program Director at Grattan Institute, an Australian policy think tank focused on health, aged care, and public policy reform.

Jul 14, 2026

16:24
What's Grattan's view on these services?
16:27
Let's start with the existing services.
16:30
So we've seen a massive expansion of vaccination from a pretty low base of nearly nothing since the pandemic.
16:37
That's great.
16:38
And we've got some important services that are, unfortunately, a bit mismanaged.
16:43
So two that we look at are meds checks, is giving people advice on their medicines, and then dose administration age- aids, like the, the pill packs you get if you've got lots of medicines to organize.
16:55
Now, they've got some problems, rapidly growing spending, but not great value.
21:52
What do you say to people who might be worried that these changes will be too disruptive or get in the way of them accessing their medicines?

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