A Shorten Labor Government will invest $250 million in a Better Care Fund \u2013 delivering healthcare sooner and safer, and reducing pressure on public hospital waiting lists.
\nThis is all part of Labor\u2019s war on hospital waiting lists.
\nPublic hospital waiting lists have been stretched to breaking point because of Scott Morrison\u2019s cuts.
\nIf the Liberals\u2019 are re-elected, Morrison will cut another $2.8 billion from public hospitals, putting more pressure on hospitals and putting lives at risk.
\nAustralia\u2019s doctors, nurses and hospital staff are heroes who provide life-saving care to millions of people a year. But they are being asked to do more with less because of the Liberals\u2019 cuts. This puts pressure on the quality and safety of services they can provide.
\nLabor\u2019s Better Care Fund will help our hospitals by providing incentives to:<\/p>\n
As part of our war on waiting lists, Labor will also:<\/p>\n
Around 600,000 Australians a year go to hospital and end up sicker from preventable complications from procedures or adverse reactions to drugs. A Shorten Labor Government will invest $250 million in a Better Care Fund \u2013 delivering healthcare sooner and safer, and reducing pressure on public hospital waiting lists. This is all part of Labor\u2019s war on hospital waiting lists. Public hospital waiting lists have been stretched to breaking point because of Scott Morrison\u2019s cuts. If the … Continue reading “LABOR DECLARES WAR ON HOSPITAL WAITING LISTS”<\/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-2744","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\/2744","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=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Australian Medical Association says our public hospitals are under pressure, with \u201cincreased numbers of deaths for admitted patients, high levels [of] complications [and] delayed care\u201d. It has called for the Government \u201cto fund hospitals to be better, not just busier\u201d.<\/a>
\nLabor\u2019s Better Care Fund will develop specific incentives in consultation with doctors, nurses and staff, and agree these incentives in a new National Partnership Agreement with the states.
\nLabor will also task the new Australian Health Reform Commission and the Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care with advising governments on how to improve hospital care under this agreement.
\nYou don\u2019t improve our hospitals by cutting them.
\nWe need real change \u2013 because more of the same isn\u2019t good enough.
\nIf you want better hospitals not more cuts \u2013 vote Labor.
\nIf you want a fair go for all Australians \u2013 vote Labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"