Expiry of COVID funding raises fears of hospital service cuts | AnnaPattySMH
Doctors and other health workers fear the end of extra federal health funding for COVID-19 testing and hospital care will result in cuts to other health services and PCR testing rates.
University of NSW immunology professor John Dwyer said it was essential for COVID-19 testing to be maintained to keep track of infection rates and inform hospital planning. Hazzard said that he and other states were in ongoing conversations with federal Health Minister Mark Butler who has been “receptive and understanding of our concerns”.“I think it would be helpful if the current funding arrangements continued,” he said. “Hopefully, they will find a way to agree on a model that works for everybody going forward.
“For Labor to withdraw the funding now in my view would not be maintaining the due diligence that is required,” he said. Mike Toole, an epidemiologist from the Burnet Institute in Melbourne said reduction of federal funding for COVID services was a “very bad idea” when infection rates were surging and vaccine booster rates had stalled.
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