‍The trigger or initial causation was the continuing rundown of public hospitals by successive governments through factors such as relative underfunding, acute demand increasing at a higher rate than population growth, bed-blocking in the wards, and (critically) unaddressed severe workforce shortages.



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Ian Powell discusses the changing nature of the relationship between public and private (hospitals and insurance) and how the latter has become an increasing threat to the former.

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