Jeremy Sammut

Research Fellow, Social Foundations Program

jeremy-sammut Jeremy has contributed a number of papers to the CIS Papers in Health and Ageing Series including Like the Curate’s Egg: A Market-based Response and Alternative to the Bennett Report, The Coming Crisis of Medicare and The False Promise of GP Super Clinics Parts 1 and 2.

Jeremy’s work on the federal government’s GP Super Clinics policy led the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission to commission a series of discussion papers, which confirmed his findings that Super Clinics are not an answer to the major problems confronting the Australian health system. He has written extensively about the ‘hospital crisis’ and how to fix it. In Why Public Hospitals are Overcrowded: Ten Points for Policy Makers (July 2009), Jeremy details the impact of 25 years of bed cuts following the establishment of Medicare in 1984 on the quality and quantity of hospital care. In Like the Curate’s Egg: A Market-based Response and Alternative to the Bennett Report (November 2009), he proposes a ‘person-centred’ national hospital and health voucher scheme as a cost-effective solution for the health challenges of the twenty-first century.

Jeremy has also written a ground-breaking study of Australia’s child protection system, Fatally Flawed: the Child Protection Crisis in Australia (June 2009), which found that current approaches to assisting dysfunctional welfare-dependent families are putting thousands of vulnerable children at risk of serious harm.

He has a BA (Hons.) from Macquarie University and a PhD from Monash University in Australian political and social history. He has published articles on historical subjects in The Journal of Colonial History, The Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, and Quadrant, and has written for all major newspapers on a broad range of health and social policy topics.