{"id":987522221,"date":"2021-09-04T03:14:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T02:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/west-australian-government-spends-1-9-billion-on-health-system-in-2021-22-budget\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:06:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:06:25","slug":"west-australian-government-spends-1-9-billion-on-health-system-in-2021-22-budget","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/west-australian-government-spends-1-9-billion-on-health-system-in-2021-22-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"West Australian government spends $1.9 billion on health system in 2021-22 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span>West Australia plans to allocate $1.9 billion to improve the capacity of the public health system, especially staffing in the upcoming <\/span>2021-22 <span>budget.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span><span>Approximately $1 billion will be directed to health and hospital services.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span>Almost $500 million will be allocated to the Mental Health Commission, including $129.9 million for youth mental health services and initiatives.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span>An additional $487 million will be funded&nbsp;for COVID-19 preparation and response measures.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><span><span>To read more, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-08-08\/wa-government-to-spend-extra-1-9-billion-on-health-in-budget\/100359818\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Source: ABC News<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Australia plans to allocate $1.9 billion to improve the capacity of the public health system, especially staffing in the upcoming 2021-22 budget. Approximately $1 billion will be directed to health and hospital services. Almost $500 million will be allocated to the Mental Health Commission, including $129.9 million for youth mental health services and initiatives&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987529463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987522221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987529463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}