Scalpel Taken to Hospital ‘Back Office Bureaucracy’

Scalpel Taken to Hospital ‘Back Office Bureaucracy’
A general view of the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, on July 16, 2020. Robert Cianflone/Getty Images
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Victorian hospitals will be overhauled but not forced to merge following a scathing review finding the health system no longer fit for purpose.

The state government has accepted all but one of 27 recommendations, either in full or principle, from an expert review that highlighted the need for “fundamental change.”