Vic urges federal U-turn on hospital cash

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 05 Desember 2012 | 12.59

VICTORIA wants the federal government to reconsider a cut to the state's health funding at Friday's meeting of state and territory leaders in Canberra.

Health Minister David Davis said the federal government had decided to slash Victoria's hospital funding by $107 million between December this year and June 2013.

He said fewer surgeries would be performed because of the federal funding cut over the Christmas period, unrelated to surgeons going on holidays.

"There will be more closures and less operations performed (over the Christmas holiday period) than there would otherwise have been," he told reporters on Wednesday, ahead of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting.

"I note that the prime minister and premiers are meeting on Friday so we hope that the commonwealth steps back from these decisions."

Mr Davis said the federal government had pulled $475 million in funding to the state's hospitals over four years.

Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has said the state will actually receive almost $1 billion in extra commonwealth funding over that period.

She also accused Mr Davis last month of failing to complete the necessary paperwork to secure more than $200 million of commonwealth funding for extra hospital beds and regional hospitals.

He has since sent the appropriate documentation and Mr Davis's spokeswoman said the commonwealth has yet to respond.

It is believed state and territory health ministers will next discuss hospital funding during a telephone hook-up on Friday next week.

Deputy Opposition Leader James Merlino said the Victorian government had cut $616 million of health funding over its last two budgets.

"The state government needs to not take the knife to health," he told reporters.


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