2003-2004

Budget at a Glance 2003-2004

This page contains information to the 2003-2004 Budget at a Glance for the Department of Health and Ageing for the financial year 2003-2004.

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Budget at a glance

	Budget	Forward Estimates			Measure
	2003-04 $m	2004-05 $m	2005-06 $m	2006-07 $m	Total $m *
Fairer Medicare - Better Access, More Affordable
New GP training places	12.9	37.5	63.0	76.0	189.5
Additional medical school places	5.1	8.4	12.4	16.3	42.1
More nurses and allied health workers for urban areas of workforce shortage	15.0	15.7	16.4	17.1	64.2
Reducing up front costs for GP visits1	4.7	1.9	1.8	1.8	11.0
Encourage GP take up of HIC Online 1	4.2	2.0	1.3	0.2	9.0
GP incentive payments to bulk bill patients with concession cards1	46.8	80.0	103.1	115.6	346.2
Improved information and practice management	1.8	1.9	1.4	1.0	6.1
New Medicare Safety Net for patients with concession cards1	12.8	17.9	17.7	18.1	67.1
New private health insurance safety net for out-of-hospital Medicare expenses1	16.3	24.2	23.5	24.4	89.6
Information for the public and medical professionals1	19.1	-	-	-	21.1
Access to Broadband Technology	4.1	5.1	-	-	9.2
Australian Health Care Agreements
Australian Health Care Agreements	-108.9	-172.0	-264.6	-372.9	-918.5
Focus on Prevention
Focus on Prevention - community awareness and infrastructure	2.1	1.5	0.7	-	4.3
Focus on Prevention - primary health care providers working together	2.7	4.6	4.6	4.5	16.4
Focus on Prevention - priority-setting mechanism	-	-	-	-	-
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome1	1.7	-	-	-	2.2
National Meningococcal C Campaign - additional funding	1.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	2.6
National Breast Cancer Centre2	-	-	-	-	-
Support services for women with breast cancer2	-	-	-	-	-
Hepatitis C prevention and education - maintain funding2	-	-	-	-	-
Preventing falls in older people2	-	-	-	-	-
Sharing health care initiative2	-	-	-	-	-
Voluntary annual health assessments for older Australians2	-	-	-	-	-
GP involvement in coordinated care planning2	-	-	-	-	-
Multidisciplinary case conferencing2	-	-	-	-	-
General Practice Education, Support and Community Linkages Programme - redirection of funding3	-1.4	-1.7	-1.8	-1.8	- 6.7
Enhanced Divisional Quality Use of Medicines Programme - maintain funding4	10.9	17.0	19.2	21.6	68.6
A Safe and Effective Health Care System for All Australians
National Blood Authority - establishment and new Commonwealth funding arrangements	1.0	-6.0	-8.3	-8.6	-21.8
HealthConnect - a national information network	2.5	2.5	-	-	5.0
Trans-Tasman Therapeutic Products Agency - establishment	5.4	2.6	-	-	8.1
Office of the Gene Technology Regulator	8.1	8.4	-	-	16.5
National Health and Medical Research Council - regulation of research involving embryos and prohibition of human cloning	3.3	3.3	-	-	6.6
Pathology - Quality and Outlays Agreements	-	-	-	-	-
Improved Monitoring of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Entitlements initiative	14.8	-	-	-	14.8
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme - improved entitlement validation of concession cards	11.6	2.8	-14.0	-32.7	-32.4
Private Health Insurance Premiums - further measures to contain future increases	-0.1	-10.4	-14.4	-24.7	-49.6
Diagnostic imaging - new agreements	-	-	-	-	-
Food Standards Australia New Zealand - development of primary production and processing standards	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	2.1
Food Standards Australia New Zealand - increased funding	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.8
Health Insurance Commission - additional funding	40.0	-	-	-	40.0
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency	2.2	0.4	0.4	0.4	3.5
Medicare Easyclaim2	-	-	-	-	-
Private Health Insurance Ombudsman - maintain existing funding2	-	-	-	-	-
Private health insurance levy - supporting the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman2	-	-	-	-	-
Professional Services Review2	-	-	-	-	-
Lifetime Health Cover - terminate funding for implementation3	-1.5	-1.5	-1.6	-1.8	-6.4
National Illicit Drugs Strategy
National Comorbidity Initiative	1.7	2.7	-	-	4.4
Psychostimulants initiative	1.0	1.0	-	-	2.0
Rural and regional initiative	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	4.0
Research fund	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	2.8
Australian Drug Information Network	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	1.0
Continuation of funding for Illicit Drug Diversion initiative2	-	-	-	-	-
Maintain education, counselling and referral services through the Needle and Syringe Programmes2	-	-	-	-	-
Needle and Syringe Programme distribution of injecting equipment2	-	-	-	-	-
Reprioritisation of funding for retractable needles and syringes5	-3.3	-5.4	-	-	- 8.7
Cannabis cessation strategies3	-0.3	-0.3	-0.3	-0.3	-1.1
Redirection of funds from the Community Partnerships Initiative3	-1.1	-1.1	-1.1	-1.1	-4.4
Ongoing Support for Rural Australians
Medical Indemnity Insurance Framework - rural obstetricians	3.8	2.3	2.1	2.1	10.3
GPs in rural and remote areas - retention payments2	-	-	-	-	-
Rural Women's GP Service2	-	-	-	-	-
Rural medical students funding to assist with their studies2	-	-	-	-	-
Regional Health Services programme2	-	-	-	-	-
Regional medical schools	-2.5	-2.5	-2.5	-2.5	- 10.0
Quality of Life for Older Australians
Aged Care Assessment Teams	2.5	-	-	-	2.5
Dementia and challenging behaviours initiative2	-	-	-	-	-
100 extra aged care beds in regional health services - maintain funding2	-	-	-	-	-
Commonwealth Carelink2	-	-	-	-	-
Pre 1 October 1997 nursing home residents - maintain funding2	-	-	-	-	-
Commonwealth Hearing Services Programme - indexation of charges	-0.2	-0.4	-0.7	-0.9	-2.2

* Some totals are affected by rounding. All totals were based on raw figures to three decimal places, added and then rounded.

¹ Measure total includes amounts for 2002-03 which are not shown.

² Amounts contained in the forward estimates.

³ Funding for this measure has been redirected to other areas.

⁴ Continuation of existing measure. Positive amounts indicate a reduction in expected savings.

⁵ Funding for this measure has been continued at a lower level than previously estimated.

Note: Any minor variations in figures between this table and Fact Sheets are due to rounding conventions

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