Fixing the problems that beset the Australian hospital system

Dwyer, John M

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01987.x

Topics

Public hospitals need an injection of cash to help reduce demand for hospital services; networking and role delineation among hospitals would immediately increase safety and quality

Key propositions

University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

Correspondence: j.dwyer@unsw.edu.au

Competing interests:

None identified.

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