Victoria’s community health services are at the forefront of providing accessible and equitable care that improves the health and wellbeing of communities. They are well placed to deliver on policies that seek to strengthen primary care, now and beyond this term of government.
Community health services use a multidisciplinary model to deliver a range of cost-effective services spanning primary care, allied health, health prevention and promotion.
Tomorrow’s federal budget is expected to deliver more funding to implement the work of the federal government’s Strengthening Medicare Taskforce. This is a key platform of this term of government, showing serious efforts to improve health equity for all Australians through added investment in Medicare initiatives that keep people out of hospital.
Recent announcements to extend Medicare bulk-billing arrangements, enabling more people to access a GP without an out-of-pocket expense – have been welcomed across the community. This will have a meaningful impact on the care communities can access, ensuring people have care when they need it.
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