NSW: Millions hit by health funding shortfall report

AAP General News (Australia)
01-18-1999
NSW: Millions hit by health funding shortfall report

SYDNEY, Jan 18 AAP - Residents in Sydney's outer west and south-west received only half the
health funding of those in the inner-city, it was reported today.

Figures showed that funding for residents in the western and south-western fringes of
Sydney was only $552 and $510 per head respectively, while residents in the inner-city got
$1,016 per head, The Daily Telegraph said today.

Two years after the state government pledged to mend discrepancies in health …