Daniel Andrews tells private healthcare groups wanting $3,000 staff bonuses to pay their own rewards

The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, defends the $3,000 bonus payments on offer for public healthcare workers, saying private operators should be rewarding their staff ‘appropriately’. Photograph: Diego Fedele/AAP

The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, has hit back at private hospital operators after the sector accused the state government of excluding their staff from prospective $3,000 bonus payments for healthcare workers.

On Monday, Andrews stressed that the state government did not employ private healthcare staff and said some for-profit providers had done “particularly well” in recent years.