Intervention for NSW and QLD public hospitals
Source: Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing and The Leader of the Opposition. Joint Press Release.
"Australia’s public hospitals are staffed by incredibly dedicated doctors, nurses and health workers who often can’t do their job properly because of suffocating bureaucracies.
The problem is not so much which level of government runs hospitals but how they are actually being managed. Especially in NSW and Queensland, hospitals have almost entirely lost the capacity for local decision-making. Doctors and nurses are often the “meat in the sandwich” having to explain to patients the consequences of decisions and policies over which they have no say....The Coalition’s comprehensive health and hospitals policy will be released nearer to the election."