Matt Keogh (Burt, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question, and I really look forward to him and members of the opposition, the veteran community, the allied health professional community and ex-service organisations engaging in the consultation around how we can ensure better access to allied health care. At the moment, we have a situation where people accessing allied health care have to continually go back for further referrals, and we want to make sure that we make that easier for our veterans.

We also want to make sure that there continue to be practitioners across the allied health environment who will service our veterans, because we've continually had the complaint that the fees that we are paying to them have not been sufficient for them to keep servicing our veteran community. So we've been looking to address that as part of our measure.

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