Labor announces $10m to provide ‘inclusive, culturally safe’ healthcare for LGBTQ+ Australians
by Josh Butler from World news | The Guardian on (#6WKDJ)
Exclusive: Funding would go towards third-party training for doctors and nurses, which advocates say would remove barriers to treatment
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Labor would provide health workers with training to care for LGBTIQA+ Australians in a $10m package to upskill doctors and nurses alongside a new accreditation program, the health minister, Mark Butler, has said.
The election promise, to be announced on Monday, would see Labor contract a training provider to design programs to train healthcare workers to help give inclusive, culturally safe primary care" for gay, lesbian and gender-diverse Australians.
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