The Greens welcome the clear pathway presented through the Public Health Policy Reform plan announced by major health agencies today.
The Joint Statement on Public Hospitals from all major Tasmanian health bodies shows the critical state of our public hospitals.
The most recent figures by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in their Elective Surgery Waiting Times 2015-16 report are terrifying.
I rise to put some more context to the report the Minister for Health conducted last year as part of the patients' access initiative Patients First.
Health Minister, Michael Ferguson, needs to take his fingers out of his ears and start listening to the doctors and nurses in the Royal Hobart Hospital.
Under a neoliberal market-first privatisation ideology, the minister has systematically cut the funds to the Health department.
The Tasmanian Budget is heading for crisis with an estimated $1.8 billion in Federal cuts to health beginning from 1 July next year.
The events in Tasmania’s hospitals over the last couple of months are inexcusable and cast a black shadow over this parliament.
The events of the last couple of days in our hospitals are inexcusable and they shame us all.