Health

Victorians deserve a health system that puts patients before bureaucracy. Despite a growing workforce and record expenditure, too many people still wait beyond clinically recommended times, ambulances remain ramped outside hospitals, regional communities lose local services, and clinicians waste time on duplicated paperwork and disconnected systems instead of treating patients.

One Nation will focus the health system on timely treatment, local access and measurable results. We will cut waste, put more nurses and doctors on the wards, use every available theatre, protect regional hospitals, and hold the system accountable for the care it actually delivers.

Our Policies

Lower Costs, More Care

Wait-List Guarantee

Regional Guarantee

Cut Bureaucracy

Lower Costs and Deliver More Care

Use shared technology, automation and carefully governed AI to cut paperwork, drawing on Denmark’s successful shared national digital-health infrastructure.
Improve theatre utilisation and introduce NHS-style ring-fenced elective pathways so existing facilities perform more operations and patients get treated faster.
Use Victoria’s statewide purchasing power to drive down implant and medical-device prices while preserving clinical choice.
Add transitional, rehabilitation and respite capacity to free up acute beds, end chronic ambulance ramping, and reduce unnecessary hospital stays.
Redirect every dollar saved from administrative cuts and non-clinical programs into more nurses, more doctors on the wards, and more beds.

A Wait-List Guarantee

Create a real-time statewide view of surgical and specialist waiting lists.
Expand safe same-day surgery, enhanced recovery, hospital-in-the-home and seven-day discharge services so more Victorians get treated and go home sooner.
Set clear public targets to treat Category 1 and Category 2 patients within clinically recommended times and to eliminate chronic ambulance ramping.

A Regional Healthcare Guarantee

Guarantee minimum regional services, including 24/7 emergency departments and core maternity and surgical capacity in major regional hospitals.
Apply a strict Local Access Test before any major specialty can be removed, downgraded or relocated.
Hold health networks accountable for waiting times, patient outcomes, local access and efficient delivery — with consequences for persistent failure.

Cut Bureaucracy and Duplication

Protect ward clerks, bookings, medical records and other staff who directly support safe patient care.
Share IT, procurement, payroll and corporate services statewide instead of duplicating them across dozens of health services.
Abolish standalone DEI, ESG and other non-clinical corporate programs that cannot demonstrate a necessary patient-care, safety or legal purpose, and put the verified savings straight into frontline care.

These reforms put patients and local communities first. Money currently wasted on bureaucracy and ideology goes to nurses, doctors and beds. Protected elective capacity clear the waiting lists. Regional guarantees stop the quiet stripping of local services. The system will be judged on results — how quickly people are treated and whether they can get care close to home — not on the size of its corporate structure.

Victorians should not have to wait in pain or travel hundreds of kilometres because of administrative failure and ideological priorities. One Nation will deliver a health system that works for patients, not for bureaucrats.