Victoria state budget 2022 at a glance: health, education and police in focus

The Andrews government has committed $12bn to Victoria’s health system in the 2022 state budget. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

The Victorian government has handed down its election-year budget, with a centrepiece $12bn blitz on the state’s health system.

Titled “putting patients first”, the budget outlines the Andrews government’s plan for repairing the state’s overburdened health sector and clearing deferred care that has built up over the pandemic.