Hospital safety improvements could save $1.5bn a year, health report finds

Report says 250,000 patients a year would be complication-free if safety lifted to standard of top 10% of hospitals

Australia’s health system would save about $1.5bn a year if all hospitals became as safe for patients as the top 10%, a Grattan Institute report has found.

The report, Safer Care Saves Money, found one in nine hospital patients suffered a complication, costing public hospitals more than $4bn a year and private hospitals more than $1bn a year.

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