Program · Outcome 2: Ensuring improved access for all Australians to cost-effective and affordable medicines, medical, dental and hearing services; improved choice in healthcare services, through guaranteeing Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme; supporting targeted assistance strategies and private health insurance
Program 2.5: Dental Services
Support eligible children to access essential dental health services through the Child Dental Benefits Schedule (CDBS).
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 11 reported
$335m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$40m (−10.6%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dental Benefits Act 2008 | administered | $374m | $335m | −$40m −10.6% | reported | 2.2.1 Outcome 2, row 674 |