Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

One of the things this funding includes is the Healthy for Life initiative of $36.2 million to continue and expand the focus on continuous quality improvement activities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary healthcare services. We know the importance of investing in good data and information to continuously improve clinical practice and service delivery. This initiative focuses particularly on the areas of child and maternal health and chronic disease management and builds on what we know works to develop efficient and effective services that can deliver improvements in health outcomes.

Through this and other initiatives announced in the 2014 budget, the government is investing in programs with a strong evidence base that will ensure outcomes are achieved across the health system. This commitment of funding is a concrete example of this government's commitment to closing the gap by ending the cycle of disadvantage, which starts with poor child health.