While the overwhelming consensus among health professionals and politicians is Australia's health system in its current form is unsustainable, trying to reform the system for the future is akin to herding cats.

As chairman of the Western Sydney Local Health District Professor Stephen Leeder proclaimed at the recent Future of Healthcare round table co-hosted by The Australian Financial Review and Philips, that health reform is a little like your Facebook status where you can write single, married, de facto or it's complicated.