Queensland Health Minister Cameron Dick wrote to Little Haven in response to the minister’s office having received 33 letters of support for Little Haven from 13 GP’s and 20 community members. In that letter the minister made the claim that funding for Little Haven was difficult as the Federal Government was drastically cutting funding of Palliative Care funding over the coming years.
In light of that Minister Dicks advised to the LHPC board was to:
“The board of Little Haven should reconsider its client admission / intake policy in recognition of its finite revenue.”
In other words only admit terminal patients who are in the last 3 months of their prognosis and cap the number of patients. For the LHPC board – this is just not acceptable or an option.
