“We have just completed our budget process for the next financial year. The pressure we have put on managers and teams to streamline spending and services just to maintain a financial position that gets us by is unfair and unjust. We cannot continue to put that type of pressure on our teams without at some point running the risk of damaging the standard of care the community expects and deserves.
“BCHS has spent 47 years caring for the community. We make a real difference around health and wellbeing which we know then has a positive financial impact in that the burden on the hospital system is reduced.
“All we ask is that Government acknowledge this by funding the social services sector fairly so we can all get on with helping people to live the best lives possible in the communities we serve. How can anyone argue that isn’t a good investment?”
Ms King and Mr José commended the government on establishing a new Working Group to review the funding indexation process but warned this would not help the funding crisis faced by social service organisations this year.
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