The current state and future changes in the Australian healthcare system are described below with the help of recently published reports concerning rising patient safety problems and the new focus on mental health. I would like to focus on the Victorian healthcare system more specifically due to the deterioration of patient mortality and number of severe adverse events in hospitals. This worrying trend has raised several concerns on the need to enhance safety precaution as well as appropriate scrutiny on medical operations all over the region.

The number of patient safety incidents are not limited to Victoria only as others have reported with similar kinds of concerns in other parts of Victoria. It has therefore become challenging for the healthcare professionals and policymakers to deal with such factors while at the same time ensuring that the quality of healthcare is not compromised. According to other sources the possible causes that might led to the enhancement of medical errors may include lack of enough staff, enhanced patient flow and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thus, increased attention has been paid in recent years to raising the standards of the training received by healthcare managers and employees, the development of effective communication procedures in hospitals and the installation of better safety control mechanisms. Several hospitals are already in the process of implementing new technologies that are aimed at minimizing leakages in medication administration processes and monitoring patients’ status on a continual basis and the results obtained so far bear great promise in lessening the proportions of adverse occurrences.

Similar to the problems existing in regards to the patients’ rights and safety issues, mental health has become one of the most significant areas of concern in the context of the Australian population’s health and well-being. The pandemic along with ongoing economic challenges and changes to the social fabric has significantly increases the need for mental health services across the country. To this end, the federal government has made plans known to increase mental health support services especially for youths and those in rural areas.

The latest growing model is considered to be telehealth for mental health services’ delivery. The latter is seen with the recent introduction of the Bamboo Peer Support app now in existence that seeks to pair new mothers with technical mentors with the help of technology akin to dating apps. It focuses in the early months of parenality which is a gap in intervention in the intervention of postnatal care.

It ranges beyond technology, where schools and other institutions are now paying attention to students’ and workers’ mental, social and emotional well-being. Much attention is paid to adopting initiatives that have to do with the stress, coping and psychological health of a person. This change is a pro-fitting parameter of health concerning the progressed to definition of health to include both physical and mental health.

Smoking and substance abuse are the two main ongoing issues of public health concern in Australia which are yet to be overcome. Plain packaging along with issues of raising the taxes obviously helped in decreasing the overall smoking rates in a country within the past decade with people questioning about a flourishing black market for cigarettes. This phenomenon has resulted into doubts regarding the current tobacco control polices and has resulted to debates on new techniques to reduce the prevalence of smoking any further.

On a more positive note, these people of Australia remain committed to preventive measures of health hazards. The country’s commitment to global health events including the Women’s Health Week is still evident which is a pointer to the fact that the sovereignty aims at educating individuals in order to take charge of their own health. The American leader of this year’s campaign is “Your Voice, Your Choice” which is focused on giving the women the tools and making them feel empowered so that they can prevent or solve any health issues on their own.

There is also advanced treatment methods that are being practiced in the Australian health and wellness sector regarding different diseases. For that reason, the demand for ethnic eating disorder treatment strategies to address neurodivergent free folk is gradually gaining popularity and is no longer limited to applying the same treatment techniques used with other mental health patients. The increased focus on patients’ individual needs can be observed to be driven by a larger ongoing process of customizing treatments map based on genetics, life pattern and environment including disease map.

Successive governments of Australia are dealing with these multifaceted health issues and here is when a more integrated concept of health and well-being becomes critical. From discussing patient safety in healthcare institutions to developing the mental health services and focusing on the disease prevention the healthcare system of the country is becoming more diverse to respond to the new needs of the population. As it has been mentioned before, there are still many barriers to overcome, but the ongoing advancements and the novel emphasis on the multisectoral approach to health tell much about the possibility of the overall betterment of the health of the entire Australian populace in the years to come.