The Wire

Australians are ending up in hospital unnecessarily because treatable or manageable conditions are not being addressed. That’s according to a new report by the Grattan Institute which reveals our health system is consistently failing some communities.

Places such as Frankston in Victoria and Palm Island in Queensland have had preventable hospitalisation rates at least 50 per cent above their state average, every year for a decade.

The report says failing to prevent hospitalisations is costing $15 million a year.