Until the mid-1980s, Australian public hospitals were managed by their own boards of directors. When hospital boards were abolished, state governments established centralised health bureaucracies to administer hospitals and other health services within designated regions, such as the eight ‘area health services’ in New South Wales. Describing the negative impact the bureaucratisation of the hospital system has had on staff and patients in the last 30 years, these essays argue for the reestablishment of local hospital boards. The three essays are:
1. Radical Surgery: The Only Cure for Public Hospitals
2. An Insider’s Perspective on Hospital Administration
3. Why Public Hospitals Are Overcrowded: Key Points for Policymakers
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