FACT SHEET: Chronic Care Policy Issues

Posted: January 1, 1999

(January 1999)

Patients requiring Chronic Care are facing some of the worst effects of Harris government and Health Service Restructuring Commission changes. This area of patient care has been gutted by new guidelines of only 8.23 beds/1000 population 75 years and over1, compared to the 1996 rate of 14.1 beds/1000 for 75+.