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blame game

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Blame game goes on: Qld calls on MLs to cover slashed programs

Blame shifting between the Commonwealth and state governments is continuing despite federal Labor’s promises – first announced by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd – that its primary care reforms would end the ‘blame game’.

New health blame game could be in store

New health blame game could be in store

Establishing Local Hospital Networks and regional Primary Health Care Organisations (PHCOs) could create a new frontier for the ‘blame game’ within the health system. Addressing a forum hosted by the Australian National University, RDAA CEO Steve Sant warned the bodies might use each other as scapegoats if the system did not work. “Are we going to see another report in a few years titled Shifting the Blame Game about the networks blaming PHCOs and vice versa because they have not changed the health outcomes of [those] they serve?” he asked. Philip Davies, professor of health systems ...

Rudd’s reforms a ‘poisoned chalice’

THE Rudd Government’s health reform plans have come under renewed fire for failing to end health cost-shifting and the ‘blame game’ between the federal and state governments as experts continue to deconstruct them. Professor Jeff Richardson, foundation director of the Centre for Health Economics at Monash University, labelled the reform package a “poisoned chalice”, and said the funding arrangements would not stop public hospitals attempting to push their patients back on to GPs. Professor Richardson was one of several experts who criticised the reforms in the latest MJA. The proposals agreed at the recent Council of Australian ...