The crippled economy: How Australia could be on its knees by 2030

Speaking to The New Daily, Australian Patients Association CEO, Stephen Mason said:

“To help reduce excess waiting times for orthopaedic surgery, we believe state and federal governments could contract under-utilised private hospitals to help reduce the load on the public system.

“If state governments allocated funding to pay for private hospitals to take public patients waiting the longest for elective surgery, ultimately patient outcomes would be improved and the burden on the public system would be reduced.”

Article originally published by The New Daily on the 2nd December 2019 click here to read the full article