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Australia's healthcare system is not making best use of available funding when deciding on allocating money to different services, a researcher has argued.
Further, the Queensland University of Technology's Elizabeth Martin, who wrote the brief Rationing in Healthcare for the Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research, said Australia lacked consistent, explicit and evidence-informed rationing processes – such as economic evaluation evidence – to inform decisions on allocation of health funds.
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