Mark Butler admits healthcare cannot be ‘fixed in one budget’ while AMA calls for urgent increases for doctors
Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAPPhotograph: Mick Tsikas/AAPPatients may need to wait until the second half of 2023 to see any substantial reductions to GP waiting times or gap fees, with the health minister,, admitting there are no quick fixes in the long-awaited expert review into the Medicare system.
“While the report is very welcome and certainly has changes that will strengthen the system that we know, there is absolutely nothing in the report at the moment that will provide anything immediate,” the AMA president, Prof Steve Robson, said.The Strengthening Medicare report, a Labor election promise, was released on Friday and considered at national cabinet.
It also backs more funding for longer consultations, “blended” funding models to better support chronic conditions, growing Aboriginal community-controlled health organisations and a review of “barriers and incentives” to get all health staff working to their full scope.The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said health reform was “the first priority issue for 2023” for state and territory leaders, and that national cabinet would meet again in April to discuss the report’s “practical measures”.
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