MEDIA RELEASE LAUNCESTON RALLY AGAINST HEALTH CUTBACKS Saturday 29 October 2011 Liberal candidate for Bass, Andrew Nikolic, attended today’s Launceston rally against health cutbacks with his wife Christine, a career nurse and member of the Australian Nurses Federation. Mr Nikolic said “it was wonderful to see a huge crowd gather in support of healthcare [...] Continue reading » » »
State Labor strips $8.5 million from elective surgery
The stripping of $8.5 million from the Launceston General Hospital (LGH) elective surgery budget over the next nine months highlights a staggering level of incompetence (Examiner, Oct. 6). What happened to the $130m in funding and 260 new staff for the LGH promised by former Premier Bartlett only a few weeks out from the State election [...] Continue reading » » »
Hospital Beds Close at LGH
Despite 13 years of hard Labor at state level and now four years at federal level, our health system is still in a parlous state as evidenced by today’s announcement of bed closures at the LGH (Examiner, 4 Oct 11). Recall former PM Kevin Rudd’s promise after the 2007 Election to “fix hospitals” if states failed to [...] Continue reading » » »
