PREVENTATIVE health will get a boost in today's state budget, but there will be little new funding announcements as the government grapples with revenue shortfalls.
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A $1.26 million grant to Breast Screen Tasmania is the latest in a series of minor pre-budget announcements this week.
Breast Screen Tasmania will spend the money on a mobile clinic in the North-West, establishing a new clinic site and upgrading existing sites.
``We are wanting to see more effort go into the preventative health end of our health care system, that's why we're prioritising services like Breast Screen Tasmania with new funding,'' Premier Lara Giddings said.
The allocation is the third item to be revealed ahead of the budget's release this afternoon.
Already announced is a $900,000 fund to improve Year 11 and 12 retention rates and a multimillion-dollar school renewal fund.
Details about the total cost and the number of schools to benefit will be revealed today.
Ms Giddings, who is also Treasurer, said her third budget would not deviate from the plan set two years ago to reign in spending.
``This is a budget that's fiscally responsible but also ensures that we're able to invest in people and the opportunities that we want our people to have in the future,'' Ms Giddings said.
``We set a very tough agenda, I know, I realise and accept that, back in 2011-12 with that budget.''
Ms Giddings said that plan was designed to deal with a $1.8 billion revenue write-down, but there had been even further declines.
``There'll be more detail about that in the budget tomorrow,'' Ms Giddings said.
Without making the drastic funding cuts in 2011-12, Ms Giddings said the economic situation facing the state now would have been much worse.
``We would have had to cut harder and deeper as a result.''
The budget will also include allocations to implement Gonski reforms.