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The State Opposition strongly supports the principle of devolving public hospital administration to local hospital boards. This has been Liberal policy for a number of years.
The possibility of further bed closures at the Launceston General Hospital reinforces how woefully under-funded it is by the State Labor Government.
The Shadow Minister for Health, Brett Whiteley, has accused Federal Labor Leader, Kevin Rudd, and Labor’s Braddon candidate, Sid Sidebottom, of blatantly hoodwinking the people of the North West on health in a full-page newspaper advertisement today.
The threat of strike action by nurses in Tasmanian hospitals from next week is just another example of the State Government’s mismanagement of health.
Shadow Health Minister, Brett Whiteley, has applauded the Federal Government’s package of support for children with autism, and their parents and carers.
The Treasurer, Michael Aird, and the Health Minister, Lara Giddings, must clear up the uncertainty created by the Labor Party in the North West over where the savings from the Mersey hospital will be spent.
Fears are mounting that the Health Minister, Lara Giddings, is set to announce the closure of acute and aged care beds at the Beaconsfield hospital next week.
The State Government needs to get back to the negotiating table with health professionals who are set to implement industrial action in public hospitals from next week.
The Federal Government has today provided another welcome windfall for the Tasmanian health system.
The Health Minister, Lara Giddings, must not let her own bloody-mindedness cost the people of Ouse and Rosebery the opportunity to save their local health services.
Kevin Rudd has admitted that the State Government might still manage the Tasmanian health system, even if he finds it necessary to seize funding control.
Has the State Government worked out how much its new Royal Hobart Hospital will cost?
Has it any idea how it will fund it? Or staff it?
The Leader of the State Opposition, Will Hodgman, has challenged the Health Minister to release the Conrad Gargett reports that recommended a new Royal Hobart Hospital be built.
The Leader of the State Opposition, Will Hodgman, has refuted the immature claims of Health Minister, Lara Giddings, that there has been a back-flip of any description on the new Royal Hobart Hospital or that the Opposition does not support health funding in the South.
There is a crisis of confidence in mental health services in this State, and the Health Minister maintains that things have never been better.
Legislation that seeks to allow the creation of embryonic humans for experimentation and destruction should be rejected outright, according to Liberal MHA for Braddon, Brett Whiteley.
The Health Minister should broaden the inquiry into children living in respite care to cover off other potentially inappropriate settings, such as nursing homes, and ramp up efforts to recruit foster carers in this State.
Shadow Health Minister, Brett Whiteley, has attacked Minister Lara Giddings over her admission that even at this critical point, she is still not personally involved in EBA discussions with nurses.
There were 2483 waiting for surgery at the Launceston General Hospital as at 30 September 2007, Shadow Health Minister, Brett Whiteley, said today.
Disability workers have taken their push for a fairer deal to the lawns of Parliament House today.
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