Health Crisis
Ambulance ramping times at emergency departments are through the roof and patients have been told to stay away.
Ambulance ramping times at emergency departments are through the roof and patients have been told to stay away.
Mr Speaker, the Government is failing unfortunately on every measure that Tasmanians are concerned about.
Hospitals everywhere particularly the Launceston General Hospital and the Royal Hobart Hospital are suffering in a real crisis.
I move that a select committee be appointed with power to send for persons, papers and records to inquire into and report upon ambulance ramping in Tasmania.
It is an issue of deep concern for the community and for healthcare workers, but the Rockliff Government has so far refused to take the issue seriously.
The Tasmanian Greens are pleased to have received the support of the House of Assembly to establish a Parliamentary Inquiry into ambulance ramping
Today the Tasmanian Greens have tabled the motion we will move in Parliament to establish a Parliamentary Inquiry into ambulance ramping
Enough is enough. The Greens cannot stand by as the Liberals continue to normalise their increasingly dangerous hospital mismanagement.
New Health Minister Guy Barnett must immediately commit to a real plan to tackle both the underlying causes & the dangerous effects of ambulance ramping
The Premier claims the health system "is in the best place its been for a long time", but the government's own data says otherwise