In this submission RACS outlines funding measures to achieve a variety of aims.These aims are:
- Building respectful and safe workplaces for all who work in surgery and the wider health sector
- Guaranteeing the public sector provides timely access to essential surgery
- Expanding surgical (and other specialist) services in rural areas
- Expanding surgical (and other specialist) services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Recruiting, training and incentivising operating room and post anaesthesia care unit (PACU) nurses
- Implementing appropriate policy to improve surgical registry participation, and a sustainable funding model for surgical registries
- Ensuring the private sector continues to alleviate pressure on public waiting lists
- Ensuring equitable access to telehealth
- Reducing the burden of trauma
- Safeguarding the health of all Australians from the threat of climate change
- Committing to health security and long-term health systems strengthening in Papua New Guinea