The New South Wales Minns government has put the delivery of improved health and hospital services at the forefront of its upcoming state budget, revealing it will sink more than $10 billion in forward funding into an expansion of the sector over the coming years to recruit 9,000 additional health workers.
As the clock counts down to the revelation of the state’s accounts at the end of the month, Health Minister Ryan Park has put forward a major cash splash on health in the lead-up to a state election that is increasingly being defined by expenditure on services that might otherwise be cut by opponents.