Ambulance Tasmania – Funding Issues
Words cannot do justice to the truly dire state of Tasmania's ambulance service.
Words cannot do justice to the truly dire state of Tasmania's ambulance service.
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.
Every Tasmanian knows Ambulance Tasmania is an essential part of our health system, and that paramedics do an incredible job of looking after our community.
The evidence presented to the coronial inquiry into the death of an Ambulance Tasmania (AT) paramedic makes shocking reading.
The latest Report on Government Services (ROGS) data for Health confirms Tasmania is in the midst of a health crisis that is worsening under the Liberals.
The massive privacy incursion in to the lives of every Tasmanian who’s called an ambulance since last November is inexcusable.
Once Emergency Department staff have taken any treatment of a patient on the ramp, that patient then becomes the responsibility of the Emergency Department.
Although there are aspects of this amendment that we support, we do not support the principle of the majority of what is written.
It is just a statement of fact that every single government from time immemorial has increased the Health budget year on year.
60,000 Tasmanians live in mental health distress every year. They suffer financial distress and social and financial impacts on their families and communities.