Cutting funding for hospital complications is unlikely to change patient care – here's why
- Written by Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
Patients fear the penalties will end up reducing patient care. Piron Guillaume, CC BYThe 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....
