HSRAANZ September 2026 Webinar - The budget impact of implementing short-stay joint replacement models of care in Australia

📅 Date: Monday, 21 SEPTEMBER 2026

🕰️ Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (AEST)

📍 Location: Online (Zoom)

🎙️Topic: The budget impact of implementing short-stay joint replacement models of care in Australia

Joint replacements are a high volume procedure, with >136,000 performed in Australia each year. Evidence-based "enhanced recovery from surgery" models of care have been shown to significantly reduce length of hospital stay without compromising patient outcomes. This study estimated the overall financial impact for funders from widespread adoption of short-stay joint replacement surgery in both the public and private healthcare sectors.

🗣️ Presented by: Dr Melanie Lloyd (Winner of HSRAANZ’s 2025 Health Services and Policy Research Paper of the Year - Best Early Career Research (ECR) Paper)

Dr Melanie Lloyd is a health economist and clinician researcher with expertise in the design of pragmatic clinical trials, preventative healthcare and patient-centred outcome measurement. She currently splits her time between postdoctoral roles with the Allergy Immunology Group at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), and Monash University’s Health Economics and Policy Evaluation Research Group. Her research program generates high quality evidence to support design of complex multidisciplinary interventions, moving beyond questions of efficacy toward the practical challenges of implementation and resource allocation.