The new financial year’s State Budget will see $2.7 billion invested in capital works and $24 billion in recurrent spending – taking the total 2019-20 health budget to $26.7 billion.
Frontline staff numbers will be boosted to increase our workforce. An extra 8,300 frontline staff will be employed over the next four years with 45 per cent of additional staff to work in the regions. In addition, 221 more paramedics and call centre staff will be recruited to NSW Ambulance as the second tranche of 750 more paramedics and call centre staff over four years announced in last year’s Budget.
The Ministry of Health is finalising individual Local Health District, Pillar and Network budgets in consultation with Chief Executives.
A summary of expenses by State Outcome is provided in the charts below.
Further information about the 2019-20 NSW Budget is available on Treasury’s NSW Budget website.
Recurrent expenses by outcome 2019-20 (dollars and %)
Grouped for presentation purposes, "Other State Outcomes" comprises:
Note: The sum of percentages doesn’t equal one hundred due to rounding.
