HOWARTH FAILS ON MRI LICENCE FOR REDCLIFFE HOSPITAL – BUT LABOR WILL DELIVER
Thursday, 11 October 2018
Luke Howarth has spectacularly failed to secure a Medicare MRI licence for Redcliffe Hospital from his own LNP Government – but Labor will deliver a new licence at the hospital, making life-saving scans more accessible for the people of Petrie. Federal Shadow Health Minister Catherine King and Labor Candidate for Petrie Corinne Mulholland visited Redcliffe
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Speech to World Hospital Congress – Brisbane – 11 October, 2018
Thursday, 11 October 2018
Acknowledgements The last time Australia hosted the World Hospital Congress was more than 20 years ago, in 1997. At that time, Australia was deeply mired in the “hospital wars” – a seemingly endless battle between Commonwealth and State Governments about how to fund our public hospitals. Australia’s public hospitals were then – and still are
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SCOTT MORRISON’S CRUEL CUTS TO CAIRNS HOSPITAL
Friday, 28 September 2018
Scott Morrison’s hospital cuts will hit Cairns hard, leaving local residents facing longer wait times for elective surgery and emergency treatment. The Liberals have slashed more than $7 million in funding from Cairns Hospital – one of the deepest cuts from any hospital in Queensland – and the effects are already being felt. As Treasurer,
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O’DOWD FAILS GLADSTONE ON HEALTH – AGAIN
Thursday, 27 September 2018
Ken O’Dowd’s inability to secure a Medicare MRI licence for Gladstone is the latest in his long line of failures when it comes to health. Federal Shadow Health Minister Catherine King visited Gladstone today at the request of Labor Candidate for Flynn Zac Beers to discuss the region’s health care challenges and Labor’s commitments to
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LABOR TO DELIVER HELIPAD AT MACLEAN DISTRICT HOSPITAL
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
A Shorten Labor Government will provide faster access to care for critically ill people in the Clarence Valley by building a new helipad at Maclean District Hospital. Shadow Health Minister Catherine King and Labor Candidate for Page Patrick Deegan made the announcement today during a visit to the Hospital, where they met with the Clarence
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LABOR TO DELIVER AFFORDABLE ACCESS TO LIFE-SAVING MEDICAL SCANS ACROSS AUSTRALIA
Friday, 21 September 2018
A Shorten Labor Government will deliver affordable access to life-saving medical scans to communities from Sydney to Perth, from regional Queensland to suburban Melbourne. Labor is today announcing a further six Medicare-subsidised MRI licences: in Mt Druitt, Katoomba and Bateman’s Bay in NSW, Redcliffe and Gladstone in Queensland, and Monash Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. That
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NEARLY ONE MILLION AUSTRALIANS OPT OUT OF MY HEALTH RECORD
Tuesday, 18 September 2018
NEARLY ONE MILLION AUSTRALIANS OPT OUT OF MY HEALTH RECORD Nearly one million Australians have opted out of the My Health Record following the Government’s botched rollout – proving public trust in this important reform has been severely damaged. Under Labor questioning in a Senate Committee, the Australian Digital Health Agency has finally admitted that
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Speech to PharmAus18 conference – 17 September 2018
Monday, 17 September 2018
SPEECH TO PHARMAUS18 CANBERRA MONDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2018 *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** Good afternoon and thanks for having me back. It’s always a pleasure to speak you all. I’d like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land upon which we meet, and I pay my respects to their elders past and
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SCOTT MORRISON’S HEALTH FUND PROTECTION RACKET
Friday, 14 September 2018
SCOTT MORRISON’S HEALTH FUND PROTECTION RACKET The Liberals are doing everything in their power to protect the profits of the big health funds but nothing to help ordinary Australians struggling with relentless premium price rises and ballooning out-of-pocket costs. Newspaper reports today offer yet more evidence that the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison health insurance “reforms” put their big
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MORRISON’S PLAN TO RIP MORE MONEY FROM PUBLIC HOSPITALS
Monday, 10 September 2018
CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT MORRISON’S PLAN TO RIP MORE MONEY FROM PUBLIC HOSPITALS Two weeks in the top job and Scott Morrison is already planning to rip hundreds of millions of dollars more out of Australia’s public hospitals. Not content with cutting billions of dollars from public
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