NSW budget and health of people with intellectual disability

The NSW State Budget is due to be delivered on 6th September. NSW Council for Intellectual Disability is asking for our support:

Now is the time to influence the 2011 NSW budget. Could you send an email to Health Minister Skinner urging the Government to fund more intellectual disability health services?

You could make these points:

§   The $500,000 in the 2010 budget was a small first step towards the statewide network of intellectual disability health services that is needed to backup mainstream health services. It provides one new small service in the Illawarra.

§   The Government needs to steadily build on this initiative by providing additional funding each year.

§   Anything relevant to your situation and local area, eg there is no service near you, the benefit you have seen to people with intellectual disability when they can access specialised services for complex health problems.

Please copy NSW Council for Intellectual Disability into emails that you send – info@nswcid.org.au

Address:

Mrs Jillian Skinner, MP

Minister for Health
Level 31 Governor Macquarie Tower

1 Farrer Place

SYDNEY NSW 2000

Phone: (02) 9228 5229, Fax: (02) 9228 5877,

E-mail: office@skinner.minister.nsw.gov.au