Radical surgery: The only cure for NSW Hospitals is the title of a paper just published by Wolfgang Kasper through The Centre for Independent Studies
Kasper argues that "NSW public hospitals are plagued by massive systemic failures, as diagnosed in the Garling report. At the same time, hospital costs are blowing out, and may yet bankrupt the NSW budget despite a massive federal bailout under the COAG agreement. The situation requires dramatic and fundamental changes to hospital management—not additional layers of bureaucratic control or more federal subsidies."
His recommendations include autonomy and diversity for individual hospitals, a liberation from bureaucracy and the instigation of a revenue for services system, involving bed vouchers.
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