Having been in the health industry for over 30 years I have some insight into its inner workings.
Health systems run on overload and always have.
The hospitals are housing people in treatment rooms, corridors and out the door to the ambulances.
From day one the call went out for cost containment, early discharge planning and more aged care beds to stop the log jam in hospitals. It is all still happening!
If only we listened to Cassandra Wilkinson and just got the scissors out, snip, snip here and snip, snip there. (May 1st).
The accountants approach to healthcare has always been doomed to failure.
As a column of figures here, shifted to there, actually mean more work, not less in most cases.
If people stopped going to their GP’s and insisting on treatment it would all be so much cheaper.
Australians don’t just want a longer life; they want a good quality life.
It’s not cheap, but what good things worth having are?
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