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Is General Practice good value for money?

Posted by on Nov 11, 2014 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Is General Practice good value for money?

Last year taxpayers spent A$6.3 billion on GP services through Medicare, about 6% of the total government health expenditure. The authors of the Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) program published in the Conversation their assessment of whether this represented good value for money. Their conclusion, as outlined in the infographic above, is that We get the best bang for our buck from General Practice. Discouraging GP visits would increase overall health costs This supports our calculation that The cost of one admission to a public hospital is more than the cost of 15...

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