OZschwitz health system inefficiencies costing $3 billion a year

Billions of taxpayers' dollars could be saved from the public health budget without reducing levels of service and care, according to a former head of the federal Health Department.

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Stephen Duckett, now health program director at the Grattan Institute, a policy research centre, is urging the Abbott government to target inefficiencies in public hospitals and inflated drug prices to save about $3 billion a year.

In a submission to the National Commission of Audit in November, Dr Duckett said the Commonwealth could save $1.85 billion a year by changing the way it pays for medicines, adding there was ''considerable scope'' for efficiencies in public hospitals in all states. Early work suggests these could yield a further $1 billion a year.

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OZschwitz health system inefficiencies costing $3 billion a year

OZschwitz health system inefficiencies costing $3 billion a year

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