Labor urged to revive national pandemic strategy while medical bodies warn of ‘looming disaster’ from flu, Covid and staff burnouts
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He said that not only was the increase in funding “critical” to maintain health services, but the federal government also needed to scrap the 6.5% cap on spending growth as wage rises and inflation made the cap impossible to meet and would result in real cuts to frontline care. The NSW premier, Dominic Perrottet, has said he and the Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, would be asking national cabinet to look at ways to better coordinate demand between the state-run hospital network and federally funded primary healthcare.
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