{"id":308656,"date":"2025-10-29T09:02:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=308656"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:03:00","slug":"st-vincents-hospital-prioritises-indigenous-patients-in-melbourne-ed-amid-treaty-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=308656","title":{"rendered":"St Vincent’s Hospital Prioritises Indigenous Patients in Melbourne ED Amid Treaty Push"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne implemented a policy in April 2024 assigning Indigenous patients a minimum category-three triage level for assessment within 30 minutes, addressing historical mistrust and reducing wait time disparities without delaying other patients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan praised the initiative on October 28 as a model for health equity, linking it to the advancing Statewide Treaty Bill 2025 for First Nations negotiations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opposition Leader John Pesutto criticised the policy as divisive, vowing to repeal the Treaty bill if elected in 2026. A recent survey showed the vast majority of Victorians are opposed<\/a> to the Treaty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a shocking and very poor position from a healthcare provider who has probably been asked by the government to do this to ensure their funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan praised the initiative on October 28 as a model for health equity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":247097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[8634,993,18586,8],"class_list":["post-308656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-melbourne","tag-st-vincents-hospital","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308657,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308656\/revisions\/308657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}