Safer care saves money: How to improve patient care and save public money at the same time
REPORTby Stephen Duckett and Christine Jorm
Australia could save $1.5 billion a year on health spending by improving the safety of patient care. Safer hospital care doesn’t just reduce harm to patients, it saves money for taxpayers and frees up beds so other patients can be treated.
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Health Program Director
Stephen DuckettDr Stephen Duckett has held top operational and policy leadership positions in health care in Australia and Canada, including as Secretary of what is now the Commonwealth Department of Health. He has a reputation for creativity, evidence-based innovation and reform in areas ranging from the introduction of activity-based funding for hospitals to new systems of accountability for the safety of hospital care. An economist, he is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science.
Information about Stephen Duckett’s academic publications are available on Google Scholar.
Program Topics
Reports
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19 August 2018
Safer care saves money: How to improve patient care and save public money at the same time -
29 July 2018
Mapping primary care in Australia -
4 February 2018
All complications should count: Using our data to make hospitals safer -
7 November 2017
Strengthening safety statistics: How to make hospital safety data more useful -
1 May 2017
Building better foundations for primary care
News & Opinion
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24 August 2018
A hospital win-win: improving care and saving money -
20 August 2018
Better ways to improve hospital safety -
20 August 2018
To keep patients safe in hospitals, the accreditation system needs an overhaul -
15 August 2018
Palliative care funding should be redesigned -
14 August 2018
Let’s call out unconscious racism in the treatment of Indigenous Australians
Speeches & Events
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07 August 2018
Primary Care in Australia: the state of play – Melbourne -
04 July 2018
Safer care saves money – Brisbane -
17 April 2018
Safer care saves money – Melbourne -
15 August 2017
Safety and Quality – time to stop just goggling at the problems our data reveals – Melbourne -
21 March 2017
Fighting obesity: one tax and one community at a time