Effect of Budget Cuts on Hospitals
News from yesterday's coronial inquest into a suffering man's death by suicide at the Royal Hobart Hospital is shocking.
News from yesterday's coronial inquest into a suffering man's death by suicide at the Royal Hobart Hospital is shocking.
Chair, I will reflect on some of the enlightening conversations I had with the minister in his capacity as the Minister for Health.
New beds will be progressively rolled out from 2020-21, including 10 new intensive care unit beds and a dedicated 16-bed adolescent unit.
In 2015 Coroner Olivia McTaggart recommended a dedicated inpatient unit be built for young people who suffer mental illness or suicidality.
In that last six days at the RHH there have been two category 4 escalations, four violent events and all elective surgeries have been cancelled.
The Coronial inquest into the 2015 death of a Royal Hobart Hospital patient found it could have been prevented.