The Victorian Healthcare Association (VHA) has launched our 2024-25 budget submission, which aims to protect the health and wellbeing of Victoria’s public healthcare services. Amid a tight fiscal environment, our budget submission urges the Victorian Government to prioritise the health and wellbeing of the state over the health of the economy.  

We’re calling on the Victorian Government to fund the true cost of delivering services to the community and intervene and mitigate the impact of ‘thin markets’ on healthcare with seven tangible actions: 

• fund new costs associated with WorkCover to support our health sector    
• increase support to improve the health and wellbeing of Victoria’s health workforce  
• align health service budgets to anticipated wage increases  
• fund regional disaster recovery to support communities vulnerable to our changing climate 
• invest in a staged roll-out of Electronic Medical Records towards a more connected health system 
• enable a sustainably funded public residential aged care sector 
• invest in the CP@ model to bolster primary and preventative care in regional Victoria. 

 

Read the VHA’s 2024-25 budget submission: Protecting the wellbeing of Victoria’s public healthcare services and our media release.

 

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