Funding necessary to help headspace meet growing demand for youth mental health services The Federal Government’s $51.8 million funding injection will help employ additional staff and expand clinical services.
Mental health of the nation: Productivity Commission to investigate mental health spending Funding for mental health conditions in Australia has reached $9 billion across all states and territories. But is this effective, and is it enough?
Funding injection for Victorian mental health services The State Government has announced it will provide $70 million to the state’s mental health sector to help ensure people ‘don’t fall through the cracks’.
Government must ‘urgently and substantially’ invest in general practice: RACGP President-elect Dr Harry Nespolon predicts a bleak future for Australian healthcare without major Government investment in general practice.
Report calls for greater coordination and funding for Australian primary care The Grattan Institute has released a new report calling for greater political attention, funding and coordination for the Australian primary care sector.
National mental health funding commitment to plug gaps left by NDIS An agreement between the Federal Government and Australia’s states and territories will see $160 million provided for additional psychosocial support services for people experiencing severe mental illness.
Boosting Victoria’s mental health funding will save lives and money: Report Victoria has the lowest per capita expenditure on mental health in Australia, according to a new report.
ACT budget tips money into troubled hospital The trouble-plagued Canberra Hospital will get an $11.5 million cash boost to help reduce long wait times in the emergency department, boost its intensive care unit and increase in-patient beds.
Australian general practice research is nearing crisis point It’s a hard time to be a general practice researcher in Australia, GP Dr Liz Sturgiss writes for newsGP.
Federal Budget: RACGP welcomes commitment to the future of general practice RACGP President Dr Bastian Seidel has welcomed news the 2018–19 Federal Budget will include a commitment to fund general practice training, calling it a signal the Government is beginning to understand specialist GPs’ fundamental role in Australian healthcare.