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After-hours GP home visits strain the budget (and don't help emergency departments)

  • Written by: Barbara de Graaff, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Health Economics, University of Tasmania
imageAfter-hours home medical services are offered with bulk billing. But are they the best use of taxpayers' money?from www.shutterstock.com

After-hours home medical services are a burden on our health budget and don’t ease the strain on emergency departments after all, new research shows.

The roll out of after-hours GP-type home visits is linked...

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