{"id":2684,"date":"2019-05-08T01:12:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T01:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2019-05-08T01:12:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T01:12:14","slug":"morrison-government-delivers-record-regional-health-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/05\/08\/morrison-government-delivers-record-regional-health-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrison Government Delivers Record Regional Health Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nRegional Australians have become the latest target of Labor\u2019s desperate health funding lies.
\nHaving ignored regional Australia throughout the election campaign, the only election commitment they are making is to attempt to deceive regional communities.
\nTheir claims on reduced health funding are blatantly wrong.
\nThe Liberal National Government has increased funding every year and will continue to deliver record funding to regional hospitals.
\nThe Government is also investing in significant regional projects through our $1.3 billion Community Health and Hospitals Programme including $63.4 million for regional radiation oncology centres for cancer treatment and $100 million for regional clinical trials.
\nWe have also established the Murray Darling Medical Schools Network as part of a $550 million Rural Workforce Strategy that will deliver 3,000 additional specialist GPs for rural Australia, over 3,000 additional nurses in rural general practice and hundreds of additional allied health professionals in rural Australia over 10 years.
\nThis dishonesty from Labor comes as they re-announce the Morrison Government\u2019s investment in mental health \u2013 as though it is their own policy.
\nAustralians deserve better than this. We have made mental health priority and delivered a comprehensive mental health plan with annual funding of $4.8 billion in 2018-19.
\nHospital, Medicare and medicines funding is at record levels as a strong economy delivers the essential services that people need. Australians cannot afford to turn back to Labor, when Bill Shorten was Assistant Treasurer and failed to manage the budget, and the Labor Government stopped listing medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\nRegional funding<\/strong><\/td>\n		FACT FUNDING 2013-14<\/strong><\/td>\nFACT FUNDING 2019-20<\/strong><\/td>\nFACT FUNDING 2024-25<\/strong><\/td>\nINCREASED NURSES<\/strong><\/td>\nINCREASED GPS<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Victoria<\/strong><\/td>\n$894 million<\/td>\n$1.6 billion<\/td>\n$1.9 billion<\/td>\n2,900<\/td>\n1,400<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NSW<\/strong><\/td>\n$1.6 billion<\/td>\n$2.8 billion<\/td>\n$3.5 billion<\/td>\n5,400<\/td>\n2,600<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Queensland<\/strong><\/td>\n$1.2 billion<\/td>\n$2.0 billion<\/td>\n$2.7 billion<\/td>\n4,600<\/td>\n2,200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tasmania<\/strong><\/td>\n$260 million<\/td>\n$402 million<\/td>\n$494 million<\/td>\n550<\/td>\n270<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
South Australia<\/strong><\/td>\n$163 million<\/td>\n$236 million<\/td>\n$285 million<\/td>\n340<\/td>\n160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NT<\/strong><\/td>\n$125 million<\/td>\n$299 million<\/td>\n$454 million<\/td>\n980<\/td>\n470<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Western Australia<\/strong><\/td>\n$286 million<\/td>\n$410 million<\/td>\n$528 million<\/td>\n690<\/td>\n330<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n