$1.25 billion to improve the health and care of Australian patients
The Liberal and Nationals’ Government will improve the health and care of patients right around Australia with a guaranteed $1.25 billion boost to health services.
This will provide more doctors, more nurses and more services in every state and territory.
This is the tangible benefit of strong economy and it’s why we are so committed to keeping our economy strong.
The $1.25 billion Community Health and Hospitals Program will fund projects and services in every state and territory, supporting patient care while reducing pressure on community and hospital services.
Under the program, our Government will partner with communities, states and territories, health and hospital services and research institutions to provide additional funding in four key areas:
- Specialist hospital services such as cancer treatment, rural health and hospital infrastructure
- Drug and alcohol treatment
- Preventive, primary and chronic disease management
- Mental health
The new program will complement our record investment in public hospitals.
Our funding for public hospitals will more than double from $13.3 billion in 2012–13 to $28.7 billion in 2024–25.
This is record public hospital funding delivering more doctors, more nurses and more services.
Our new five year National Health Reform Agreement will deliver more than $30 billion in additional public hospital funding from 2020–21 to 2024–25, taking overall funding during this period to $130.2 billion.
Three Liberal and three Labor state and territories have already signed up to the new agreement, accessing record funding.
A strong economy enables the Liberal and Nationals’ Government to invest in even more doctors, nurses and public hospital services – benefitting patients across Australia.
This is further supported by our record investment in Medicare, provision of medicines under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to make them affordable for patients, and the breakthrough medical science occurring through the Medical Research Future Fund.
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