As mentioned previously at Croakey, the Productivity Commission is studying the relative performance of public and private hospitals with a draft report scheduled for release in September and a final report due to go to the Government in November.
As part of the study, the Commission has been requested to consider:
comparative hospital and medical costs for [...]
The State of our Public Hospitals report released today is the second such document released under Minister Roxon’s reign.
The report, whose publication is required under the Australian Health Care Agreements, inevitably leads to media reports comparing and contrasting the performance of the various states and territories, especially around elective surgery waiting times.
In the piece [...]
For years, we’ve been repeatedly told that when Governments plough public money into subsidising private health insurance and private hospitals, they’re doing it to help the public hospital system.
Prue Power is executive director of the Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association, which represents public healthcare, and whose members include Queensland Health, South Australian Health, Tasmanian [...]
The Assistant Treasurer, Chris Bowen, has announced that the Productivity Commission will study the relative performance of the public and private hospital systems.
The study will compare treatment costs, including out-of pocket patient expenses and rates of fully informed financial consent. Rates of hospital acquired infections and other indicators will also be considered.
The findings, due within [...]
Prue Power, Executive Director, Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association, adds to the debate about health inequalities:
“As the peak national body for public health services, including public hospitals, the AHHA has a strong commitment to equity within our health system.
While Australia’s health system performs well compared with many other countries, in terms of equity of access, [...]
Robert Wells, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, writes:
Mark Ragg’s analysis of the Australian health system is an elegantly simple document with a profound message. In all our argy-bargy about ‘blame games’, funding systems, ‘improved service delivery’ and ‘more appropriate models of care’, perhaps we have lost sight of a fundamental fact: the health system [...]
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