Professor Peter Brooks advocates increasing productivity and reducing demand to prepare for what lies ahead
If future increased health care demand in Australia is simply met by increasing medical workforce capacity by the year 2025, our country will go bankrupt. However, recently released modelling shows us how we can meet this demand in other ways.
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