Urgent Action Needed on Ramping Crisis
A newly published Victorian study highlighting the harm caused to patients by ambulance ramping has important implications for Tasmania.
Jul
2022
1
Ambulance Ramping
Sep
2021
6
Health – Paramedics and Ambulances
Last year in budget Estimates we asked the Minister to provide data for the number of code blue events that had occurred on the ramp at the Royal.
Nov
2020
23
Health – Ambulances and the Emergency Department
Once Emergency Department staff have taken any treatment of a patient on the ramp, that patient then becomes the responsibility of the Emergency Department.
Jul
2019
31
Tasmanian Health Service
Although there are aspects of this amendment that we support, we do not support the principle of the majority of what is written.
May
2019
30
Child and Youth Mental Health
60,000 Tasmanians live in mental health distress every year. They suffer financial distress and social and financial impacts on their families and communities.
May
2019
28
Auditor General’s Emergency Department Report Demands Action
The Auditor General’s report into Tasmania’s hospital emergency departments is enormously confronting.
Apr
2019
30
Want of confidence in Minister for Health, Mr Ferguson
The evidence of the past five years has persuaded me that this minister is not able to appreciate and to act in consultation with his hard-working staff.
Oct
2018
17
Crisis in the Health System
The Greens agree with the general tenor of this motion. It is a bit of a political motion because it has an internal contradiction.
Sep
2018
27
Want of Confidence in Minister for Health
In the paper today is exactly what we have been talking about: that this minister has persistently stood here and told fib after fib year after year.
May
2017
26
Ferguson’s Band-aid Budget Won’t Prevent RHH Crisis
There is nothing in the State Budget to prevent the imminent winter flu crisis, and subsequent overcrowding, at the Royal Hobart Hospital.
