Subsidised psychologist sessions plummet amid calls on Labor to reinstate extra Medicare visits
by Sarah Basford Canales from Science | The Guardian on (#6JF8M)
Health minister resists push to boost number of sessions to 20 as new data shows visits have dropped by almost quarter of a million
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Australians accessed almost a quarter of a million fewer subsidised psychology sessions last financial year, prompting psychologists to urge the federal government once again to double the number available to patients and work to reduce high gap fees.
The latest government services data, released last Wednesday, showed the number of subsidised psychologist sessions had declined from 6.67m in 2021-22 to 6.43m in 2022-23.
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