Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jun 2017
Patient need must be first priority in public hospitals
21 June 2017 - The Consumers Health Forum supports the call for the enforcement of Medicare principles to ensure private patients in public hospitals do not receive preferential treatment ahead of public patients.
“We back the recommendation in a new report by Catholic Health Australia, that the only driver for prioritising treatment in public hospitals should be the patient’s clinical need,” the spokesman for CHF, Mark Metherell, said.
“The detailed report, Upsetting the Balance (link is external), released by CHA today offers valuable insights following the recent disclosure that public patients wait more than twice as long as private patients for treatment in public hospitals.
