Private hospital emergency departments have little impact in reducing pressure on public hospitals.
The Buderim Private Hospital on the Sunshine Coast will not offer an onsite private emergency department, with the The Australian College of Emergency Medicine advocating for privately insured patients to use private facilities.
President Simon Judkins said “there is a certain demand for private hospital emergency departments, but we’re always just wary that they’re not going to be a panacea to the ongoing issues that we have in the public hospital system.”