3,600 more children will be able to access public allied health services each year as part of the the Government\u2019s $40 million Family Start Package to deliver the essential health services our communities deserve, as part of the 2024-25 NSW Budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$20 million from the fund will boost the public paediatric allied health workforce with an additional 32 staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our health system faces significant challenges, but the NSW Government is making the diligent decision to boost child health assessments and early intervention services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This will reduce waitlists and improve access to much needed diagnosis and therapy for children across NSW, including those in rural and remote communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minns Labor Government is also investing $2.3 million funding over four years to support Royal Far West (RFS). This will enable RFS to continue to work in partnership with NSW Health to provide a specialist, multidisciplinary health and wellbeing service for children with complex developmental concerns who live outside the greater metropolitan areas of NSW and cannot access these services locally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This boost to allied health and early intervention services delivers on the Government\u2019s commitment to supporting families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This budget cares for NSW, ensuring we have the essential services the people of NSW rely on, so that every family can access the quality health care they need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NSW Minister for Health Ryan Park said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTimely access to paediatric allied health services for children with developmental vulnerabilities is shown to improve their educational, social, employment and economic outcomes later in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis investment is a step towards improving developmental outcomes, school participation and academic performance of children across NSW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019re ensuring children and their families can access health services closer to home and when they need them, improving their health, development, and overall wellbeing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 3,600 more children will be able to access public allied health services each year as part of the the Government\u2019s $40 million Family Start Package to deliver the essential health services our communities deserve, as part of the 2024-25 NSW Budget. $20 million from the fund will boost the public paediatric allied health workforce with … Continue reading “Funding boost to improve child health and wellbeing outcomes”<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27208","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=27208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27209,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27208\/revisions\/27209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}