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The State Government needs to take a hard look at its action on drugs in the wake of comments from the Drug Advisory Council of Australia.
The Shadow Minister for Health and Human Services, Brett Whiteley, today welcomed Prime Minister, John Howard’s, announcement of $1 million funding for mental health services in the North West.
The State Government has effectively given community groups seven working days to comment on the Primary Health Services Issues Paper.
Is Child Protection Services Tasmania benefiting from the promised new IT system that was due to come on line in March?
The State Government needs to commit to proper consultation about the future of health in Tasmania.
The Health Minister, Lara Giddings, should explain what programs or plans are in place to ensure that bureaucrats in the health department are more exposed to the coal face of the delivery of health services.
The decision of the North West Regional Hospital CEO, Mr Ken Campbell, to move to a new position as Area Manager for Primary Health Services is a good career move for him and the State Opposition wish him well in his new endeavours.
The State Government’s answer to people who have long waits in its hospital emergency departments is to go somewhere else.
The State Government has attempted to manipulate accident and emergency patient figures in an effort to reduce the required number of nurses.
The Burnie City Council must not be punished for the foresight it has shown in investing in its water and sewerage infrastructure in any State Government reforms of the sector.
The State Government must reveal what stage it’s at with a social and economic impact study into gambling in Tasmania.
The State Labor Government has been a major culprit in selling off Housing Tasmania properties to make money and then failing to replace them, leaving people in urgent need living in tents and cars.
A shortage of qualified staff and an increasing workload could see patients of the North West region’s Oncology Outreach Service travelling to and from Launceston for treatment.
The destruction by fire of the Adult Education building in Burnie today is a devastating blow to the community.
Only the Lennon Labor Government would announce it would build a new Royal Hobart Hospital, and where it wanted to build it, before working out how to pay for it, or even if it could.
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