The Morrison government says it will provide additional funding to assist the temporary widening of telehealth consultations through GPs and other specialists due to the high infection rate from the Omicron outbreak.
The $24 million will also cover the continued supply of personal protective equipment, such as masks, respirators, face shields and gowns for face-to-face consultations including patients that have tested positive through a rapid antigen test. The latter aligns with national cabinet's 5 January decision that RAT tests no longer need to be confirmed by a PCR test.
Health Minister Greg Hunt said telehealth had been a vital support during the pandemic, providing greater flexibility in healthcare delivery at the most critical time and continues to be a fundamental part of the pandemic response.
"Enabling specialist medical practitioners to provide telehealth consultations to hospital in-patients as a temporary measure will support continuity of care for patients when their doctor cannot attend the hospital due to COVID-19 restrictions."
That’s not even $1 per Australian. I wonder if this is a weekend joke to celebrate the successful crucifixion of Djokovic by the Banana Republic of Scomo.
Temporary!
Small change out of their 16 billion dollar election war chest
Telehealth should be a regular thing.
COVID is a lung disease 2 proven tests to tell if your lungs are healthy and a healthy, anti-inflammatory diet for lung inflammation to avoid any complications
What a wanker. He just cut them off!! Don't see 'reinstate' anywhere there, guess he doesn't want to draw attention to what he did 🤬🤬🤬
So $24million(24,000,000) for the Telehealth $62million(62,000,000) on RATs(which LNP will double charge us) versus $16billion (16,000,000,000)for them to bribe us to Re-elect them.
AusPol2022 geez, chucks, thanks health minister Hunt. Too little too late - as per usual from your Gov Enjoy your retirement.
No one gives a fck what they are spending, this should have been done fkn ages ago *BEFORE* STATES OPENED THEIR BORDERS - AS PRESSURED BY MORRISCUM - AND LET COVID RIP 🤬🤬🤬 Just another clusterfuckup by ScottMorrisonMP
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