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23 National cabinet on Friday the Prime Minister premieres and chief Ministers of territories agreed and published a strategic framework for transitioning covid-19 measures that framework reflects a range of principles that were agreed by the national cabinet back in September to guide the transition particularly of government programs and public health orders out of the emergency phase of the pandemic which has been wound back over the course of this year uh the key priorities and key principles of those documents agreed by the national cabinet were firstly to protect vulnerable and at-risk members of the community particularly from severe disease and death secondly to ensure that our health system and hospital system have the capacity to respond to Future waves of covert and thirdly to provide effective information and access by the community to vaccines and treatments and today I'm releasing the government's covert Health Management plan for 2023 a plan that involves the investment of an additional 2.9 billion dollars in special covert measures over the course of that year uh from the 1st of January as uh has been indicated some months ago out of national cabinet covered admissions to Australia's hospitals will be funded in the standard way under the National Health reform agreement which which uh divides um or allocates funding for our hospital system between the Commonwealth and state governments and that that was something agreed and announced out of the first national cabinet meeting after the election of the Albanese government for 2023 however the Commonwealth will continue and extend the 50 50 funding arrangements for State PCR testing clinics where States choose to continue those clinics or other PCR testing services and also for State vaccine Administration Services as well the Commonwealth is also extending special Medicare or MBS items for PCR testing in pathology clinics at GP consults for covert positive patients and for people who are seeking a prescription for oral antiviral medicines for covert we're also extending existing arrangements to ensure that vulnerable groups in particular in the community are protected they particularly relate to residential aged care to residential disability care and a First Nations communities we've also announcing the extension of GP respiratory clinics the vast bulk of them will continue to operate throughout the remainder of Summer and from the 1st of March will be put on to a retainer Arrangement where that can be agreed so that they're able to scale up in the event of future wives this plan strikes the right balance we're confident to protect vulnerable Australians to protect the Integrity of our health and hospital system while transitioning safely out of the emergency phase of the pandemic today I'm also releasing the independent evaluation of the Commonwealth's better access for mental health program this program has been operating for more than 15 years now it is the largest allocation of a particular program in mental health and it funds through Medicare Services by GPS by psychiatrists and Psychology Services as...