Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

we can avoid about $7 billion of waste in avoidable hospital admissions and we can look after patients at the primary care of the spectrum before they come to hospital. It recognises that what Australians want is a system that looks after their entire journey, that does not allow the clunkiness of different funding models to get in the way.

Look at our approach, which includes new models of primary care, enrolment funding for chronic and complex care design, a review and a rewrite of the MBS—the first in a generation—because it no longer reflects contemporary clinical practice—

Mr Stephen Jones interjecting—

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