Jeremy Rockliff,Minister for Health More than 50 additional hospital beds will be opened across the state to meet an expected increase in seasonal demand.
Tasmanian Labor
Without funding, Gutwein’s signature health commitment is wishful thinking
Rockliff needs to explain how he would staff any future development
Newly minted Health Minister Jeremy Rockliff must tell Tasmanians who will fund the much-touted $580 million redevelopment of the Launceston General Hospital and how he will staff additional health services.
Acting Labor Leader Anita Dow said while today’s release of the LGH masterplan was welcome as Tasmania’s health crisis continues to escalate, without a definitive answer on funding and future staffing, it amounted to little more than pretty pictures.
“Tasmanians who badly need new health services will be looking forward to Mr Rockliff and Premier Gutwein releasing comprehensive detail of how it will be funded,” Ms Dow said.
Jeremy Rockliff,Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Mr Goddard’s latest report on mental health services contains factual inaccuracies.
I’m concerned that calculations around beds rely on the incorrect claim that beds were lost at the Peacock Centre when it burnt down.
In fact, the Peacock Centre provided community mental health support, it was not an inpatient facility, meaning Mr Goddard is using incorrect numbers to support his calculations.
The Tasmanian Liberal Government has a $216 million plan to continue our transformation of Tasmania’s mental health system, alcohol and drug treatment system and improve the health and wellbeing of Tasmanians.
Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institution
MEDIA RELEASE: Tasmanian Commission of Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse Launched
Thursday 13 May 2021
With wide-ranging powers equal to that of a Royal Commission, the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings was launched today.
The last Tasmanian Royal Commission was held in 1992.
The Commission of Inquiry will investigate child sexual abuse within the State Service and explore ways the Government can better protect Tasmanian children.
Three eminent Commissioners have been appointed to the role:
The Honourable Marcia Neave AO, Commission President and former Supreme Court Judge
Grandfather Graeme Charles Davis, who had his bladder removed at Launceston General Hospital in January 2018, wasn t given antibiotics to treat the infection until it was too late .