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Preventive healthcare being neglected, economist warns

6 April 2026
By Heather Fletcher
Australia’s healthcare system needs a reset. “We have an acute care mindset dominated by hospitals, specialists and expensive interventions, while prevention and management of chronic disease is neglected,” says health economist and former clinician Luke Slawomirski. Dr Slawomirski says the system is “reactive, expensive, fragmented, and not really that good at producing health”, describing it […]

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