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| Health facilities getting $2.04 billion capital investment |
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Health Minister Annette King has announced a substantial capital investment in the public health system. |
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| Health gets three-year funding path |
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"The $3.2 billion three year health funding path laid out in Budget 2002 will enable the sector to plan for service delivery in a genuinely strategic way," Health Minister Annette King said today. |
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| Increase in GMS subsidy for under-sixes |
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Health Minister Annette King says increasing the GP General Medical Services subsidy for under sixes is a positive step along the way to giving children access to free or very low cost primary health care. |
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| $200 million group B meningococcal campaign |
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Health Minister Annette King today announced a commitment of up to $200 million to the Meningococcal Vaccine Strategy to be funded over a five-year period, with $35 million to be spent in 2002-03. |
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| Sanitary works subsidy scheme approved |
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Health Minister Annette King today announced government approval for a sewage treatment subsidy scheme to help small to medium sized communities upgrade or build new treatment plants. |
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