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Content Provider	OECD iLibrary
Author	Johar, Meliyanni Jones, Glenn Savage, Elizabeth Sharma, Anurag Harris, Antony
Abstract	In Australia, lowering waiting times for elective surgery has been a policy focus over the last two decades. Initially, the focus at the national level was on subsidising private health insurance with the aim of shifting demand from public to private hospitals. More recently, policies have shifted to directly expanding public hospital capacity and providing financial incentives to states for achieving lower waiting times. Despite these expensive efforts, waiting times barely changed, with the median even increasing slightly. Australia’s states manage the public hospitals, and there are large variations in waiting time across the states. There is some evidence that state-based programmes are more effective than national ones, but their impacts have been short-lived. Several features of the current system for managing waiting lists may contribute to long waiting times, including the wide discretion given to specialists in assigning urgency to patients on the waiting list.
Page Count	27
Starting Page	71
Ending Page	97
Language	English
Publisher	OECD Publishing
Publisher Date	2013-02-04
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Social Issues/Migration/Health
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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