Senate debates

Wednesday, 26 October 2022

Questions without Notice

Health Care

3:01 pm

Photo of Katy GallagherKaty Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I'm happy to take it on notice and come back to you. But there is an adjustment through forecast activity that was reconciled based on the work the hospitals have done. The reality is, during the COVID-19 pandemic they did less of their activity, less of their normal activity that gets funded through this mechanism. That has been reconciled. There is additional funding going into health, I think in the order of $6 billion. We continue to work with the states and territories. They've got a government that wants to talk to them about how hospitals work, how the primary healthcare system works with that and how aged care works with that. You've got to see it on the continuum, and you'll see that in the budget: more funding for aged care, more funding for health and working with the states and territories on a national health system.

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