HealthCARE FOR ALL
More Victorians are putting off basic healthcare because they can’t afford it.
When people can’t get care early, small problems become bigger, more painful and expensive to treat.
Labor’s neglected our community health and public dental services and is axing VicHealth – Victoria’s only dedicated preventative health agency.
The Greens will make dental care free, save VicHealth and expand community health services.
Good community health services and preventative care mean people can get affordable healthcare close to home before problems reach crisis point, which also takes pressure off the hospital system.
Our plan
- Make dental free
- Save VicHealth and expand community health
- Take pressure off our hospitals
- Free and universal access to abortion
Explore our plan for health
- Make Dental Free
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The Greens will create a public dental system so all Victorians can have healthy teeth, and we’ll tax the big gambling corporations to pay for it.We’ll invest $3 billion in prevention, building the workforce and infrastructure, and public dental clinics, so all Victorians can access care early and have healthy teeth from childhood through to older age.
- Save VicHealth
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The Greens will make investment in prevention and health promotion 5% of our existing health budget, because prevention reduces the risk of disease in our communities, which not only takes pressure off the hospital system and saves money, but also helps everyone live longer, healthier lives. We will use this money to stop Labor from cutting VicHealth, and more.
- Expand community health
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The Greens will make spending on community health services 3% of the existing health and health infrastructure budgets, so people across Melbourne and regional Victoria can access holistic care provided by publicly funded GPs and allied health, no matter where they live.
- Making sure country people get proper healthcare
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The Greens will establish a parliamentary inquiry in rural and regional healthcare in Victoria and develop a regional and rural health workforce strategy, to make sure country people can access care when they need it.
- Take pressure off emergency departments
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Our emergency departments are full, with ambulances left waiting to unload, increased risks of violence from frustrated patients, and worse outcomes for patients and health workers
The Greens will take pressure off emergency departments by:
- Reducing people needing hospital in the first place, and helping get them out faster, by investing in health promotion and prevention, supporting and expanding community health and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, and making dental free.
- Investing more in mental health, including community based care, addiction support, investment in the workforce, culturally safe support for First Nations people and ensuring a health-led response to mental health crises
- Doubling public housing, as well as delivering promised housing support for people with complex mental health and psychosocial challenges and more supported housing for people with disabilities
- Supporting the hospital workforce with better pay and conditions and more allied health workers, and by establishing a Victorian Taskforce on Occupational Violence in Healthcare.
- Freeing up beds. The Greens will invest in more staffed hospital beds, as well as more rehabilitation and aged care beds, so patients who no longer need acute care can free up hospital beds.
- Making sure country people get proper healthcare, by establishing a parliamentary inquiry in rural and regional healthcare in Victoria and developing a regional and rural health workforce strategy.
- Ban junk food, alcohol and gambling ads
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Labor lets big corporations like the big junk food, alcohol and gambling industries profit off our health. The Greens will ban advertising of junk food, alcohol and gambling on all state-owned billboards, buses and trams.
- Free and universal access to abortion
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The Greens believe everyone should have free and comprehensive access to abortion and contraception, no matter where you live.