When Productivity Commission researchers examined past assessments of the health system’s productivity earlier this year, they were pleasantly surprised.
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If traditional productivity measures are believed, Australia’s health system has been a long-time laggard.
Official Australian Bureau of Statistics productivity measures, comparing hospital workers’ hours with outputs (such as the time a patient spends in hospital), suggested that since the 2008 financial crisis, productivity had lifted just a piffling 0.1 per cent a year, up to 2019.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/why-measuring-public-sector-productivity-is-so-slippery-20241003-p5kfh8
