The Clinical Oncology Society of
Australia’s (COSA) Annual Scientific
Meeting being hosted in Adelaide
has a couple of interesting facts
with which to grapple.
Former Health Minister John Hill,
predicts that SA’s health system
will become unsustainable over
the next 20 years unless tough
decisions are made.
The state’s over-75 population is
growing at nine times the rate of
people aged under 15, placing a
huge burden on health services.
Over 65’s are twice as likely as
younger people to need a hospital
bed in an given year and over 85’s
are 5 times more likely.
“And with cancer incidence
expected to increase by around
30 per cent each decade as the
population ages, oncology services
will be stretched beyond capacity,”
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