PHOTO: Budget is a chance to rehabilitate rural health
The National Rural Health Alliance (the Alliance) is awaiting a Federal Budget that it hopes “corrects market failure of healthcare access” in rural Australian communities.
The Alliance is the peak body for rural and remote health in Australia, representing 45 members.
In its pre-budget submission to the Federal Government, the alliance says that the whole Rural Australia “is not only home to more than seven million Australians” but also contributes the majority of the nation’s economic worth, with around two-thirds of Australia’s export earnings coming from regional industrie
However the alliance points out that “people living in rural Australia have poorer access to health services than other Australians”…