Federal Labor will work with the Victorian coalition and is confident its healthcare reform package will be attractive to the new state government, Health Minister Nicola Roxon says.
Premier-elect Ted Baillieu says the Victorian government will examine the health deal with the commonwealth, agreed to by his Labor predecessor John Brumby.
"My predecessor went to Canberra with an ambition at one level and came back with just 20 per cent of that ambition," Mr Baillieu told reporters on Tuesday.
"We want to know what's in the deal for Victoria, and even the final signatures on Melbourne Cup Day have not led us to much greater detail."
The coalition's success in the Victorian election - which could be repeated in NSW in March - has put the federal government's health reform agenda at risk.
But Ms Roxon said she was confident the coalition would recognise the deal was good for Victoria, with an extra 330 hospital beds already being rolled out across the state.
Asked if she was worried that Victoria would now pull out of the agreement, Ms Roxon said: "No, I'm very confident that the deal is a good deal for Victoria.
"I'm very confident when we explain the billions of dollars of extra investment that come into the Victorian health system that it will be attractive, but ultimately that is a matter for the new Victorian government, and I look forward to working with them on it."
After congratulating Mr Baillieu, Ms Roxon said she was happy and keen to brief his new government at the earliest opportunity.
"We believe that Victorian voters would expect both the federal government they elected and the state government they elected to work together to try to resolve this to the benefit of Victorians," she told reporters in Melbourne.
She rejected the suggestion that any details of the health deal had been kept from the Victorian coalition in opposition, saying the agreement had been on the internet for many months.
"Now I'm not going to make any judgments about what Mr Baillieu or his team choose to read or what they should access on the website, that's a matter for them, but the information is public," she said.
The federal government has signed an agreement with every state and territory leader, except Western Australia's Liberal premier Colin Barnett, which makes the commonwealth responsible for 60 per cent of public hospital funding.
In return the states and territories will surrender about a third of their GST take to Canberra.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Monday she would continue to press her case for health reforms.
Mr Baillieu said he had met with Ms Gillard on several occasions and had had no "personal issues" with her.
"We've had some lengthy discussions about education policy and particularly the BER (Building the Education Revolution)," he said.
"I got into her ear on that occasionally in the past. I have found her relatively straightforward to deal with in that sense."
Victoria's coalition deputy leader Peter Ryan said he wanted to ensure the state's regions did not miss out on the advantages of the federal government's $36 billion national broadband network.
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