Overcrowding in Public Hospitals

The Centre for Independent Studies has just published a paper by Jeremy Sammut entitled, Why Public Hospitals are Overcrowded : Ten Points for Policy Makers. Sammut pulls no punches as he asserts, "The technical cause of the hospital crisis and the nationwide shortage of acute inpatient beds is 25 years of cuts to public hospital beds, while the systemic cause is the misallocation of resources away from frontline, bed-based hospital care and the corresponding growth in the size, cost and complexity of the state government bureaucracies that mismanage the public hospital system." He then goes on to make his ten points which need to be considered when planning the structural reform needed for our ageing population.