Scott Morrison attended an Easter event at Westmead Children's Hospital on Sunday with his wife Jenny, bringing two gift baskets for staff and children at the hospital.

His government today announced plans to grow the health portfolio budget, including $273.1 million to cut the cost of continuous glucose monitoring to support an additional 71,000 Australians with type 1 diabetes.

The additional Australians with type 1 diabetes will from July 1 pay a maximum of $32.50 each month to access the monitoring devices, equivalent to the cost they would already be incurring when using blood glucose test strips.

Those who already meet existing eligibility criteria will continue to receive fully subsidised access to the products.

Mr Morrison met with one family impacted by diabetes while at the children's hospital.

Madison Lavender, 6, was diagnosed last week, and parents Renee and Scott said they were "overwhelmed" by the news.

Renee said the announcement took financial concerns off the table while they were grappling with life-changing news.

"We'll have continuous access from a financial point of view," she said. "It's a relief. You want to focus on the health and not worry about the financial perspective."

Scott said Madison was taking the news in her stride, and Sunday's announcement was "perfect timing" as her parents came to terms with the news.

"It's an unexpected journey. It's a scary journey," he said. "You don't know what's going to happen next week, in two weeks."

The Prime Minister said Senator Ruston had a "big heart" to be able to deal with the many issues faced in the health and aged care portfolio.

"She's demonstrated that in the social services portfolio - she's worked with people all over the country," he told reporters at the hospital.

"She comes from regional Australia as well ... there have been significant investments in regional health, and I think Ann will bring all of those skills to this job and I think she'll make a fine success at it should the Australian people choose to return us as a government on May 21."

Labor leader Anthony Albanese was asked about the Coalition's choice to name Senator Anne Ruston as its health minister if elected in May.

"Anne Ruston has made it very clear that she wants to take the universal out of universal health care," Mr Albanese said.

"She has made it very clear that if we have a re-elected Morison government, we will see more cuts to Medicare over the next three years."