Budget 2024: Why does primary care miss out on major funding?

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Budget 2024: Why does primary care miss out on major funding?

Tim Tenbensel 2022

Tim Tenbensel

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How will primary care ever grow without a significant funding “circuit breaker” such as Dame Annette King’s tripswitching Primary Health Care Strategy? [Image: Micheile Henderson on Unsplash]

Despite widespread acknowledgement of its underfunding, primary care continues to receive minimal Budget increases, leaving advocates frustrated and questioning where the responsibility lies, writes Tim Tenbensel

Factor in population growth and increased labour costs, and that figure really amounts to treading water. Clearly, primary healthcare advocates are ve