Wednesday, 1 April 2026

 Brad ROWSWELL (Sandringham) (14:42): (1600) My question is to the Minister for Health. In 2025 the Sandringham Hospital in my community was provided a Medicare-eligible MRI licence by the federal Labor government but without the resourcing to actually provide an MRI machine. Unfortunately, almost a year later the hospital has not received funding from the state Labor government either for an MRI machine to be installed there. An MRI machine at the Sandringham Hospital would, in my view, reduce the need for our community to travel to this service, making things easier for local working families, the elderly and those suffering from chronic illness. It would also help ease the burden of our under-the-pump healthcare systems right across the Bayside communities and beyond. The hospital has the licence but it does not have the machine. So I ask the minister: when will the Allan Labor government invest in our Sandringham Hospital so that locals have access to the MRI services that the hospital is already licensed for?