BUDGET 2024 🗞️Australian Federal Budget Recognizes Nurses' Role in Quality Health Care

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The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) welcomes tonight's Federal Budget's cumulative funding and measures as recognition of nurses' vital and significant role in providing quality health care for all Australians. Emeritus Professor Leanne Boyd, interim ACN CEO, said direct and indirect measures in the health Budget and across portfolios will help keep nurses in nursing, attract more people to nursing and return to nursing, and make quality health care more accessible and affordable for Australians. “This Budget contains measures that respect nursing and recognise their unique and valued role across the health system in so many settings,” Professor Boyd said. “This Budget is a key component of the Government's health reform agenda, led by the Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce-Scope of Practice Review, with multiple reviews to be completed in the second half of the year. Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Midwives are ready to support a stressed medical workforce. “An unleashed nursing workforce will provide quality care in rural, remote, and regional communities where other health professionals are leaving, retiring, or in short supply. “The Government's Commonwealth Prac Payments for compulsory nursing training work placements and HECS/HELP debt relief will boost the nursing workforce. Professor Boyd said the Primary Care Nursing and Midwifery Scholarship Programme will help nurses and midwives advance their education to prescribe, order pathology, and refer patients. “The funding of 29 Urgent Care Clinics gives nurses more opportunities to lead care and pursue different career paths. “The ACT's Urgent Care Clinic nurse-led walk-in clinics show that this model of care relieves emergency departments and general practices, values nursing skills and experience, and provides quality and affordable health care to patients and communities. Women with endometriosis and other complex gynaecological conditions have received significant funding. “

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This complements the recent ACN-Endometriosis Australia scholarship programme to train remote community speciality nurses. “Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander vaccination rates and providing cheaper PBS medications for eligible First Nations patients are crucial. The aged care system, workforce, residents, and older Australians will benefit from additional home care packages, significant IT upgrades, measures to support enrolled nurses, and funding for better career pathways for all aged care nurses. We also welcome mental health nurse funding, new MBS items for midwives and nurse practitioners, and midwife indemnity insurance coverage improvements. As a highly feminised workforce, nursing and nurses will benefit professionally and personally from the Government's funding for housing, tackling family, domestic, and sexual violence, tax cuts, higher wages in aged care and childcare, and superannuation on the publicly funded Paid Parental Leave (PPL) scheme. ACN will analyse the Budget papers and comment in the coming days.

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