FAQs: About Workers’ Compensation
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How do you intend this to actually make changes?
This findings of this study will be shared with regulators, insurers, policy makers, general public, those who participated, and also published in internationally read peer reviewed publications. We know that good research is vital to provide the backing for decision…
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Are rural and particular remote clients being included and interviewed?
As the interviews are done via phone or zoom (the person chooses which method), we are able to connect with and interview, people from all over Australia. Part of the methods of random selection of people to be interviewed, is…
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Is the computer model being designed, intended to be presented as a national model, or is it intended to be applied by individual states/jurisdictions in their own way?
Initially we are creating a high level model that represents the similarities in the system, that occur across the nation. Through previous research we are aware of many of the differences in policy and practice that occur, however we need…
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Do we have Lived Experience Advisors from each State and how do these people get involved?
Not from every state at the moment, we have expertise from NSW, Victoria and South Australia systems. We’re keen for more people to be involved as Lived Experience Advisors. We have a process to go through, talking with the person…
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So how will this computer model ‘work’ to try out changes within the model?
The computer models are called agent based models. What they do is they display all the many different interactions that occur between people who are involved in workers compensation throughout the workers comp process. And once we’ve got the basic…
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Do you do you have a financial modelling team modelling the changes that workers want?
In a sense, yes. So, the particular sort of technical approach we’re taking to the modelling allows us to estimate things like the costs of claims and services that are provided, both in the current system and also in the…