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Cutting funding for hospital complications is unlikely to change patient care – here's why

  • Written by Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
imagePatients fear the penalties will end up reducing patient care. Piron Guillaume, CC BY

The Commonwealth government is implementing a contentious scheme to punish hospitals where patients suffer avoidable complications, by withholding funding.

The states fear the change will eat into hospital budgets when those budgets are already stretched thinly....

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