Media release
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
27 November 2014
RELEASE OF COSTING OF ELECTION COMMITMENT
Pursuant to section 6.45 of the 2014 Guidelines on the Caretaker Conventions the Department of
Treasury and Finance (DTF) today released the costing of the following election commitment of the
Liberal National Coalition Party of Victoria:
Coalition 175 – Various health initiatives
The election policy costing was completed in accordance with DTF’s Guidelines for managing
requests from a political party for costing of its own policies (the policy costing guidelines) available
at: www.dtf.vic.gov.au/election2014.
The completed costing is attached to this media release.
David Martine
Secretary
Department of Treasury and Finance
Consistent with the DTF policy costing guidelines, the contact for Parties requesting DTF costings is:
Mr Ismo Rama
Telephone: 9651 5368
Email: ismo.rama@dtf.vic.gov.au
For media inquiries please contact: Mr Bruce Atherton
Telephone: 0404 097 654
Email: bruce.atherton@dtf.vic.gov.au
Department of Treasury and Finance
1 Treasury Place Melbourne Victoria 3002
Ph: +61 3 9651 5111 Fax: +61 3 9651 2062
Website: dtf.vic.gov.au
Election 2014 – Policy costing
Title: DH Various health initiatives
Party making the request
Name of policy
Description of policy
Coalition
Various health initiatives
1.
2.
Date of public release of policy
Date of receipt of request
Additional information requested
(including date)
Additional information received
(including date)
Costing methodology used:
 scope of initiative;
 costing techniques;
 policy parameters;
 statistical data used; and
 behavioural assumptions used (as
appropriate).
Urgent care access through primary care – alternative care
destination to hospital emergency departments; and
Healesville hospital equipment
Unavailable
26 November 2014
NA
NA
DTF considers the cost estimates to be reasonable, noting that the
proposal consists of the two separate capped funding initiatives with
costing based on the following:
1. Urgent care access through primary care – alternative care
destination to hospital emergency departments – This initiative
comprises a tender process for large and well-equipped GP
practices to deliver low cost, high availability urgent GP care. DTF
notes that the level of funding is stated to be fixed and that the first
two years of the initiative are costed in a separate costing request;
and
2. Healesville hospital equipment – The initiative can be scaled to fit
the proposed budget.
The cost of the proposed output initiative for the forward estimates period is set out below:
Urgent care access through primary
care – alternative care destination to
hospital emergency departments
Healesville hospital equipment
DTF costing of output initiative
Four year total
(2014-15 to
2017-18)
2017-18
($ million)
($ million)
2014-15
($ million)
2015-16
($ million)
2016-17
($ million)
0.0
0.0
0.0
5.0
5.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
5.0
0.1
5.1
The Coalition has included an estimate for 2018-19 of $5.0 million. DTF has undertaken a costing
of this figure and considers $5.0 million to be a reasonable estimate for 2018-19 and notes that
this would bring the total estimated cost of the proposal to $10.1 million over five years.
Title: DH Various health initiatives
1
DTF comments section
Where relevant, includes separate
identification of revenue, expense, asset
and liability components.
Where appropriate, includes range for
the costing or sensitivity analysis.
Caveats or qualifications to the costing.
Associated material: Copy of request as
received by DTF and any additional
information requested by DTF from
party.
NA
NA
Urgent care access through primary care – Because the initiative
involves a fixed price tender process, DTF is unable to advise the level of
services that will be provided.
Attached
Title: DH Various health initiatives
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