2011

The Health Vote in the 2011 Budget was an estimated $127 million behind what is needed to stand still. While it listed services that will receive more funding, these come at the cost of cuts in other services.

As pressure continues for public health services to meet increasing health needs on tighter budgets, business is booming in the private sector. There are two reasons for this:  increasing levels of public funds are going to the private sector to provide services, and  lack of resources, and cuts, in the public sector are… Read more »

Every year hundreds of millions of dollars are spent treating people in hospital who don’t need to be there. If our primary health care system was functioning more effectively we would save millions of dollars and empty thousands of hospital beds.