Starting with the basics of public hospitals and federal–state financial relationships
The Australian Government’s policy statement of 3 March 20101 is the first of what will be a series of announcements on health policy and funding. It is nearly all about public hospitals and federal–state financial relationships. We will have to see if and how the later announcements interact. However, access to hospitals is the biggest single issue in the public mind.
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- 1. Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. A National Health and Hospitals Network for Australia’s future. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, 2010. http://www.yourhealth.gov.au/internet/yourhealth/publishing.nsf/Content/nhhn-report-toc/$FILE/NHHN%20-%20Full%20report.pdf (accessed Mar 2010).
I have performed consultancy work for the NSW Department of Health on the Productivity Commission inquiry into public and private hospital costs.