7 August 2017 - Private hospitals are set to come under the same scrutiny as public hospitals, and be required to repor­t their performance at the same time, after health ministers recognised a need to align quality benchmarks and transparency across the system.

As several states outsource elective surgery to the private sector, Queensland Health Minister Cameron Dick recommended on Friday that the Council of Aust­ralian Governments Health Council ensures consistency in per­formance reporting.

A discussion paper released by the Queensland government noted the “high level of variance in regard to what and how indi­c­ators are presently reported in Queensland, and in other Aus­t­ralian and international juris­dictions, (which) makes it difficult for stakeholders to meaningfully use this information”.

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