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With rising expenditure, growing chronic disease burden, and widening inequalities, the health system is in urgent need of redesign Although Australia has a high performing health system, like most high income countries, it faces unbridled growth in health care spending — now exceeding 10% of the gross domestic product.1 In New South Wales, universal access to health care is provided for about 8 million people.
With rising expenditure, growing chronic disease burden, and widening inequalities, the health system is in urgent need of redesign Although Australia has a high performing health system, like most high income countries, it faces unbridled growth in health care spending — now exceeding 10% of the gross domestic product.1 In New South Wales, universal access to health care is provided for about 8 million people.
What is value in health care and how can the system deliver it at scale? The New South Wales health system exemplifies the worldwide challenge of health service sustainability. With 234 public hospitals and facilities employing over 130 000 staff, the system provides universal access to health care for a growing population of almost 8 million people across a diverse geography of over 800 000 km2. The NSW Health budget in 2018–19 was $25 billion,1 representing over 25% of the annual state budget.
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