Portfolio Responsibilities
Portfolio responsibilities for The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP, Minister for Health.
As Minister for Health, the Hon Tanya Plibersek MP, holds overarching policy and coordinating responsibility for issues pertaining to the portfolio, including high level responsibility for the portfolio’s responsibilities relating to Council of Australian Governments’ reform agenda, and has specific administrative responsibility for:
- Medicare benefits;
- hospitals;
- medical indemnity;
- private health insurance;
- health workforce issues (including policy oversight of all areas of workforce distribution, education and training);
- the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme;
- pharmacy issues;
- population Health, including issues concerning BBVs/STIs including HIV/AIDS, and other communicable diseases, immunisation, obesity, specific women’s health issues, environmental health issues and drug abuse reduction;
- eye health;
- national health priorities (with the exception of injury prevention, arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions);
- rural and regional health;
- biosecurity and bioterrorism;
- diagnostics and technology;
- e-health;
- tobacco;
- human cloning and stem cell research;
- health and medical research; and
- asthma.