Sick children in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs will benefit from affordable access to life-saving medical scans under a Shorten Labor Government. Labor will deliver a new Medicare-subsidised MRI licence to Monash Children’s Hospital – ensuring sick kids can get access to the scans they need when they need them. Currently, families with children in this area

BILL SHORTEN MP LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION SHADOW MINISTER FOR INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS AND ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS MEMBER FOR MARIBYRNONG CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT LABOR TO SLASH ELECTIVE SURGERY BACKLOG Tasmanians will get the essential surgery they need faster, with a Shorten Labor Government to invest

THE HON JULIE COLLINS MP ACTING SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE SHADOW MINISTER FOR AGEING AND MENTAL HEALTH MEMBER FOR FRANKLIN LOCAL PATIENTS STILL LEFT IN LURCH TO ACCESS MEDICINAL CANNABIS Reports today that local patients are still caught up in a bureaucratic mess to access medicinal cannabis show that Turnbull can’t paper over

HEALTH DATA OF ONE IN TEN AUSTRALIANS EXPOSED Another shocking health data breach has occurred on Turnbull’s watch – with the revelation that one in ten Australians have had their medical records compromised by a publicly available Government dataset. Researchers from the University of Melbourne were able to link medical records with individual people –

MICHELLE ROWLAND MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS MEMBER FOR GREENWAY CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT INACTION AND DELAYS ARE PUTTING NBN USERS OF NON-MONITORED MEDICAL ALARMS AT RISK In recent weeks Western Australia’s new fire chief is the latest to warn that phone services running off the NBN

TURNBULL MRI FAILURE COULD BE EXPOSING CHILDREN TO HIGHER CANCER RISK A Senate Inquiry has heard evidence that a lack of access to MRI technology under Turnbull – especially in regional and rural communities – could be driving up rates of cancer in children. Witnesses from Children’s Healthcare Australasia told the inquiry that for about

  E&OE TRANSCRIPT TELEVISION INTERVIEW WITH TOM CONNELL SKY NEWS, PVO NEWSDAY MONDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2017 SUBJECT/S: Victoria’s voluntary assisted dying legislation. CONNELL: Interested in your opinion on this, the assisted dying bill in Victoria, should it be passed? KING: My view is yes it should be passed.  I think this is a very limited form

CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT   TONY ZAPPIA MP SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER FOR MEDICARE MEMBER FOR MAKIN   APPOINTMENT OF NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH COMMISSIONER Labor congratulates Professor Paul Worley on his appointment as Australia’s first National Rural Health Commissioner. Labor has been a strong supporter of the National

E&OE TRANSCRIPT RADIO INTERVIEW ABC DRIVE MELBOURNE FRIDAY, 13 OCTOBER 2017 SUBJECT/S: Turnbull’s private health insurance fail. RAFAEL EPSTEIN: You’ve got to give them points for trying don’t you – the exchange of some natural therapies for things like mental health services – worth a try isn’t it? CATHERINE KING, SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND

FAMILIES STILL PAYING $900 A YEAR MORE AFTER PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE ANNOUNCEMENT The Turnbull Government’s private health insurance announcement is a package of recycled election commitments that won’t fix the hip pocket pain families are feeling from soaring premiums under their watch. Families are paying an average of $900 more every year for their private