The Greens are calling on the Federal Government to make telehealth a permanent feature of our Medicare system.
\n\u201cTelehealth has been lifesaving for Australians, especially for people living in regional and remote areas and for disabled people, people with kids and older Australians.
\n\u201cWe know that people living in regional and remote areas suffer worse health outcomes. Telehealth helps to bridge that gap.
\n\u201cPatients and health practitioners need certainty about the future of telehealth in Australia.
\n\u201cPeak bodies have been working with the government for months now on making telehealth permanent. We don\u2019t need more ad-hoc 3 month extensions. We need certainty.
\n\u201cWe are in a global health pandemic and we need innovation and forward planning, not adhoc decision making that leaves people in limbo.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s 2021 and it well past time we had telehealth embedded into our Medicare system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Greens are calling on the Federal Government to make telehealth a permanent feature of our Medicare system. \u201cTelehealth has been lifesaving for Australians, especially for people living in regional and remote areas and for disabled people, people with kids and older Australians. \u201cWe know that people living in regional and remote areas suffer worse … Continue reading “Permanent telehealth must be funded in May Budget”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}