For those reading the Sunday Examiner today (10 March 2013), you will have noted my Labor opponent again over-stating his achievements while responding to questions on the Examiner’s Grill forum. He claims to have been “instrumental” in improving Tasmania’s health system and that Labor’s record is “second to none.” Yet statistics regularly show that Tasmania [...] Continue reading » » »
Tasmanian heathcare crisis
A month into 2013 and recent reports suggest that Tasmania’s elective surgery problem is getting even worse. Other states, which have exactly the same financial pressures as Tasmania, perform dramatically better when it comes to elective surgery. This shows that the biggest problem with the health system in Tasmania is Labor-Greens government – a state Labor Government that [...] Continue reading » » »
Tasmania’s healthcare performance worsens
Reports of Tasmania’s health performance this morning give rise to new concerns about health capacity and accessibility. The Examiner (article reproduced below) quotes a Productivity Commission report for the period June 2010 – 2011, which foreshadows even worse performance this year, once the effects of Labor’s budget cuts are fully felt. According to the Report, [...] Continue reading » » »
Tasmanian Healthcare Crisis
In early September I wrote in the Examiner that there was a looming sense of crisis in the Tasmanian health system. My Labor opponent Geoff Lyons rejected this view and in today’s Examiner (14 Oct 11) has again reassured the electorate that “the sky doesn’t fall in…hospitals still receive patients and they still treat them.” Yet [...] Continue reading » » »
