E&OE… Topics: Mental health support for people affected by bushfires. MATT DORAN: Joining us from Canberra now is the Health Minister, Greg Hunt. Minister, thank you for your time. A wonderful initiative. Obviously it is great to see the focus being directed not just to the rebuild of buildings but to the…
DetailsE&OE… Topics: Mental health support for people affected by bushfires. JAYNE AZZOPARDI: Well as fire conditions ease on the fire front for the moment, the Federal Government is this morning turning its attention to the heavy emotional toll for those on the ground. It’s announced $76 million for mental health services in…
DetailsE&OE… Topics: New medicines to be listed on the PBS; David Roberts GREG HUNT: I’m delighted to be here today at the Royal North Shore Private Hospital with Trent Zimmerman, Member for North Sydney, Professor Stephen Clarke, Dr Matthew Greenwood and Bill Petch who is from the Leukaemia Foundation. We’re really thrilled…
DetailsE&OE… Topics: New funding model for Indigenous health; Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund; Illness outbreak. GREG HUNT: It’s just a privilege to be here at the NACCHO Conference with Donnella, with Pat, with Senator Sam McMahon. We’ve made an announcement today of a new funding model agreed by and with NACCHO and Indigenous…
DetailsE&OE… Topics: National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre; Drought; Mental Health of veterans; Rural workforce; Rural and Regional health; Vaping; NT Government; Climate Change. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Look, it’s a great pleasure today to have Minister Hunt, our Federal Health Minister and indeed Minister Fyles, our NT Minister for Health as well.…
DetailsE&OE… Topics: National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre relocating to Darwin Airport, additional health funding for telehealth and NT hospitals, meeting with National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, mental health KATIE WOOLF: Now here in the Northern Territory, we know that Darwin’s National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre do a wonderful…
DetailsE&OE… Topics: Aged Care Royal Commission; Private Health Insurance LEON BYNER: I caught up a few minutes ago with Minister Greg Hunt. GREG HUNT: It is a very powerful and very moving report and that’s exactly why we called it. We called it after we saw the reviews into the tragedy…
DetailsE&OE… Topics: Aged Care Royal Commission; Mental Health Productivity Commission; Private Health Insurance FRAN KELLY: Greg Hunt, welcome to Insiders. GREG HUNT: Good morning Fran. FRAN KELLY: Minister, will the Government stop neglecting older Australians right now? And announce more funding for these home care packages right now? GREG HUNT:…
DetailsE&OE… Topics: National partnership for mental health; Eating disorders; Safe use of medicines; E-cigarettes; Hospital services; Peel Health Campus eating disorder centre; Royal Commission into Aged Care. GREG HUNT: I want to welcome today’s progress through the COAG Health Ministers meeting. In particular, there was a historic agreement to work for a…
DetailsE&OE… Topics: Royal Commission into Aged Care; Mental health Productivity Commission; Private Health Insurance; Drought. CHRIS KENNY: The Health Minister Greg Hunt is with us live now, joining us from Perth. Thanks for joining us Minister. Just on that (inaudible), first up on aged care, obviously it’s not your direct responsibility as…
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