Tasmanian Labor
the unacceptable tragedy at Hobart’s Roy Fagan Centre and accepting
responsibility but not accountability, Health Minister Jeremy Rockliff needs to
tell Tasmanians today what he will do to fix the situation.
Shadow Minister for Health, Mental
Health and Wellbeing Dr Bastian Seidel said Mr Rockliff had failed patients and
staff by doing nothing to lift the Gutwein Government’s unacceptable level of
care despite having knowledge of chronic staff shortages for at least seven
months.
Minister responsible for care at Roy Fagan for the past two years, not just the
past two days,” Dr Seidel said.
“The report on this heartbreaking
Tasmanian Labor
As the Tasmanian health system continues to lurch from disaster to disaster the Liberal Government has failed abysmally on crucial resourcing promises it made more than three years ago.
Shadow Minister for Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing Dr Bastian Seidel said an important commitment to fast track a so-called dedicated Health Recruitment, Retention and Workforce Planning Unit made by former failed Health Minister Michael Ferguson in 2018 had still not been delivered.
“Mr Ferguson promised to deliver this unit in the first month of the former Hodgman Government in 2018 which he said would deliver more than 1,300 new health staff within six years,” Dr Seidel said.