Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

This government is committed to improving health outcomes, particularly when it comes to front-line services. Unlike those opposite, this government, through the budget, has shown we are absolutely committed to moving away from bureaucracy, moving away from duplication and ensuring we are efficiently and effectively targeting those front-line services. One of the things in the budget is the $52½ million for the rural and regional teaching infrastructure grants. They will provide 175 grants of up to $300,000 each to medical practitioners in rural and remote areas so that those medical practitioners can improve their medical infrastructure, their teaching infrastructure, in those GP clinics. Many of my colleagues on this side of the chamber would have seen those clinics and know that there is a real need. The government has identified that and supported that through this program.