Complex sentence: In 2003, Federal and State governments were negotiating funding of public hospitals but little attention was paid to non-hospital approaches such as prevention and early diagnosis, community-based health care, mental health, indigenous health and workforce health.
Split into simpler sentences: In 2003, Federal and State governments were negotiating funding of public hospitals. Meanwhile, little attention was being paid to non-hospital approaches such as better prevention and early diagnosis, as well as community-based health care, mental health, indigenous health and workforce health.