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Budget surplus signals perfect time for Victorian health investment
11 October 2007
AMA Victoria congratulates the Victorian Government on its better-than-expected budget figures and says it should take this opportunity to invest in Victorians’ health.
“Victoria needs a substantial injection of funds to improve the quality of public hospital care. We need more beds, more doctors and more nurses,” according to AMA Victoria President, Dr Doug Travis.
“The budget surplus should be used to invest in recurrent funding for hospital beds and one-off windfalls provide a good opportunity for the government to invest in increasing surgery throughput to cut waiting times.
“It is important for the government to commit to more elective surgery to ensure the decline over the last year is reversed.”
The State Government reported a budged surplus of $1.4b for 2006/2007, $743m higher than its 1 May 2007 prediction.
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