Australian organ donation rates still lag behind most other developed countries and this is a sign that the Government’s $151 million investment hasn’t delivered what the Government promised, said Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Primary Healthcare, Andrew Southcott.

“While any increase in the rate of organ donation in Australia is welcome news, the fact remains that Australia’s donation rate is still less than half that of the leading countries like Spain”

“There ar...

The Federal Government has allowed only two weeks for people to comment on its Ten-Year Roadmap for National Mental Health Reform.

Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Shadow Minister for Ageing and Shadow Minister for Mental Health, said the arrogance shown by the Labor Government was breathtaking.

“The Gillard Government claims to have mental health as a second term priority but it has released its 42-page draft version of its Roadmap and then given people only two weeks to comment,” S...

Having failed to deliver on crucial promises – including to “fix” public hospitals – Nicola Roxon has fled her failures after four tumultuous years as Health Minister.

Shadow Health Minister Peter Dutton said there was no significant success in health that Nicola Roxon could point to as an accomplishment, unless she considered the billions that will be wasted on duplicating bureaucracy was a job well done.

“Labor’s so-called health reform has turned out to be nothing more ...

After more than four years as the Minister for Health & Ageing, Nicola Roxon’s report card on the GP Super Clinics program is nothing to be proud of, and falls far short of the mark said Andrew Southcott, the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Primary Healthcare today.

“Since 2007 they have promised 64 GP Super Clinics, delivered only 19 of those, and been forced to scrap two in the process”

Nicola Roxon said it best herself on ABC Radio in December 2009:

“Well I think fo...

Today’s MYEFO shows how the Gillard Government’s priorities in health are all wrong.

While it wastes hundreds of millions of dollars on GP Super Clinics it will rip almost three quarters of a billion dollars from Australia’s hospital system over the next four years.

National Healthcare Specific Purpose Payments to the states are expected to fall by $110 million in the current financial year and by $723 million over the forward estimates according to the Mid Year Economic and Fis...