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Media release: State Budget 2025: Vision needed to aleviate WA’s hospital bed crisis
Thursday June 19, 2025
Today’s State Budget contained a $1.4 billion boost to health, including $800 million for hospital services and $200 million for infrastructure, but much more needs to be done to turn around our ailing health system, according to AMA (WA) President Dr Michael Page.
“It was disappointing but not altogether surprising to see no meaningful acknowledgment in the State Budget of the deep and worsening crisis of public hospital bed capacity in Western Australia,” Dr Page said.
“Every day we fall deeper into a health infrastructure debt – the gap between where we are, and where we need to be.
“The road out of the crisis, therefore, only gets longer, and we wonder whether we will ever get back to having a public hospital system that in its totality we can be proud of as a State.
“What is needed is a visionary plan for massive upgrading and expansion of our bed capacity.
“We will continue to wait to see such a plan, just as thousands of patients across WA wait for elective surgery, outpatient appointments or to be seen by a doctor in our ramped emergency departments.”
Please contact AMA (WA) Media via email media@amawa.com.au for further information on this issue.
