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The Albanese Labor Government is continuing to improve our health system: strengthening Medicare, the heart of universal healthcare, easing cost-of-living pressures with cheaper medicines, and embedding new mental health services in Medicare.

The Albanese Labor Government has worked hard to improve the quality of life for older Australians. We have put nurses back into nursing homes, given residents more time with their carers, lifted wages in the sector and improved transparency and accountability.

The 2024-25 Budget is delivering on the Albanese Government’s promise to make it easier to see a doctor.

Women with endometrial cancer and people with itching associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) will benefit from new lifechanging medicines added to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) from May 1.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference in Adelaide on strengthening Medicare; more Urgent Care Clinics; hospital funding; mental health; elective surgery waitlists.

More than $26 million will boost essential mental health and suicide prevention support services in South Australia over the next three years.

The Australian Government has listened to Australian women suffering endometriosis and complex gynaecological conditions like chronic pelvic pain and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

The Australian Government is making it easier for South Australians to see a doctor by attracting and retaining more doctors in regional and rural South Australia.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Michael Rowland and Bridget Brennan on historic Medicare changes for women battling endometriosis; domestic violence.

Read Minister Butler's interview with Sarah Abo on historic Medicare changes for women battling endometriosis.

The Albanese Government is delivering on the long-term call for Charles Darwin University to establish a medical school in the Northern Territory.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's interview with Matthew Pantelis on attracting more doctors to SA regions; historic changes to Medicare for endometriosis.

Read Minister Butler and Assistant Minister Kearney's press conference on historic Medicare changes for women battling endometriosis; more doctors in Adelaide.

Nominations are rolling in for the Australian Government’s Stronger Medicare Awards.

Australians with different types of cardiomyopathies now have access to new treatments under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

The Australian Government has appointed Dr Zoran Bolevich to lead the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

For the first time, the nation’s frontline health bodies have come together in support of the Government’s vaping reforms to prevent the sale, supply, manufacture and commercial possession of non-therapeutic vapes.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler and Minister Wells' press conference on peak health bodies joining the Government fight against vaping; aged care; AstraZeneca.

The Australian Government is investing in Australia’s health workforce by upskilling our nation’s nurses and midwives through a new $50.2 million scholarship.

Read the transcript of the radio interview between Assistant Minister Kearney and Tom Connell on budget measures for students in work placements and the health system

Read the transcript from Assistant Minister Kearney's doorstop on the Primary Care Nursing and Midwifery Scholarship Program, paid placements, HECS debt

Researchers at Southern Cross University have been awarded more than $3.8 million to help Northern Rivers locals affected by the devastating 2022 floods.

The Albanese Government is investing in a once in a generation transformation of health and medical research in Australia.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister McBride's doorstop at the Thompson Institute on the opening of the first National PTSD Research Centre; investment in better models of care.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's press conference on transforming health and medical research in Australia; vaping.