Federal budget: The government will save $300m from revamping care plan items

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

In the fine print buried in last night’s budget papers is a plan to save $300 million by ‘streamlining’ items for chronic disease care planning. 

It is one of the ‘efficiencies’ in budget lingo which the Federal Government has not been shouting about in the last 24 hours. The savings are over three years, incidentally.