Last week the Federal Minister for Health, Tony Abbott announced that he intended to make the creation of 736 public hospital boards a condition of the next round of Commonwealth-State health funding agreements.
Since then the Centre for Policy Development has sent out an e-news letter raising doubts about the advisability of pursuing this course of action. Like other commentators, it raises concerns that such local boards may become lobby groups for particular interests regardless of community health needs as a whole or that by isolating public hospital funding from other health funding significant problems within a hospital system may in fact be increased.
2 comments:
What's the bet that Shirley Adams tries to be part of Grafton's hospital's board should one eventuate?
guru,
Yep, you could almost bet on it.
I notice that a recent Nationals media alert on Grafton Hospital only mentions Gulaptis and Shirley Adams.
Her inability to stop playing partisan politics is probably the reason she won't be a mayor anytime soon.
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