TURNBULL’S CUTS TO MONASH HOSPITALS

Malcolm Turnbull is cutting $23.5 million from Monash Health Services, leaving the people of Melbourne’s south-east facing longer wait times for treatment.

 

Turnbull is cutting $715 million out of Australia’s public hospitals between 2017- 2020, with Monash’s cut equivalent to 57,105 outpatient appointments or 35, 240 emergency department visits.

 

Turnbull’s $23.5m cuts are also the equivalent of 32 doctors a year for three years or 66 nurses a year for three years.

 

Now Turnbull is seeking to lock in even more savage cuts out to 2025.

 

These cuts affect the following Monash Health facilities:

 

 

Turnbull is happy to give big business a tax handout of $80 billion but won’t properly fund public hospitals in Monash and give locals the health care they need.

Every dollar cut from Monash public hospitals is a dollar cut from sick and vulnerable patients. These are people waiting for hip surgery, knee replacements, and dealing with life-threatening health issues.

Access to health care should be determined by your Medicare card – not your credit card.

A Shorten Labor Government will invest millions of dollars in additional funding in Victoria’s hospitals, funding more beds, doctors and nurses, and bringing down emergency department and elective surgery waiting times. 

We have pledged to reverse Turnbull’s 2019-2025 hospital cuts by establishing a national $2.8 billion Better Hospitals Fund – meaning we will deliver a record investment in the health of all Australians.

This will restore the difference between the Liberals’ promise to fund 50 per cent of hospital cost growth and its actual policy of funding 45 per cent.

Only Labor will fix Victoria’s hospitals.