Program · Outcome 2: Maintain and enhance the physical and mental wellbeing and quality of life of eligiblepersons and their dependants through health and other care services that promote earlyintervention, prevention and treatment, including advice and information about health serviceentitlements
Program 2.1: General Medical Consultations and Services
DVA has arrangements in place with medical and allied health practitioners in both the public and private sectors to deliver a comprehensive range of services throughout Australia, provided in hospitals, in providers’ rooms and in the homes of veterans and families. To ensure that eligible veterans and dependants are able to access necessary services, DVA will either pay for travel to the nearest service provider or pay a provider to travel to other locations to provide services to eligible veterans and dependants.
Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 56 reported
$708m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$12m (−1.6%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Special Appropriations | administered | $720m | $708m | −$12m −1.6% | reported | x_Table 2.2.1 Resources an, row 358 |