Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Oct 2016
Health and aged care are the new productivity reform frontier, Parkinson says
10 October 2016 - Australia needs to improve the productivity of its health and aged care sectors if it is to avoid them becoming a drag on national income growth, and to allow an increase in the income of workers in the sector, the head of the Prime Minister's Department Dr Martin Parkinson says.
Dr Parkinson has taken up the Harper competition review's argument that placing the consumer at the centre of service provision is a crucial part of creating the conditions for competitive forces in the non-traded parts of the economy like health and aged care.
Consumer-driven demand is the idea at the centre of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, but it is one that does not apply in the aged care sector.
