Tasmanian Labor
Health Minister has no excuse for not participating
Tasmanians want to hear from Health Minister Sarah Courtney about how the crisis in Tasmania’s health and hospital system has spiraled out of control on her watch.
Seven days after Labor Shadow Health Minister Dr Bastian Seidel challenged Ms Courtney to a public debate on the key election issue of health, the Health Minister needs to either commit to attending the event tomorrow or explain to Tasmanians what she is afraid of.
“It’s critical the more than 50,000 Tasmanians waiting to see a medical specialist and the more than 12,000 waiting for necessary surgery hear from the Minister about how we came to this crisis,” Dr Seidel said.
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A doctor accused of raping an 11-year-old girl in Tasmania was banned from treating female patients only after an interstate medical board received a separate complaint.
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The doctor is still registered to work but is not allowed to treat girls or women
That alleged incident was investigated internally and referred to police five months later by her parents
Zoe detailed the allegations in detail to the police in a letter when she was 12
The doctor is still registered to work but is not allowed to treat girls or women except in an emergency, after he was deemed an unacceptable risk to their safety.
Five years after the Tasmanian Government pledged to put patients first, hospital wait times remain a sore point
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While Luke Emery has had positive experiences with the hospital system, his mother says other family members have not.
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The 2016 Tasmanian Government initiative Patients First was supposed to help with access to two of the state s major hospitals
Two further initiatives aimed at improving access to the Launceston General Hospital and Royal Hobart Hospital were announced late last year
Despite these, in the first two weeks of 2021, both hospitals reported more issues with ambulance ramping
Cybersecurity expert calls for replacement technology following Tasmanian ambulance patient data leak
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The unencrypted information came from pagers used by paramedics.
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A cybersecurity expert has called on the Tasmanian Government to replace its ambulance communication technology to prevent future breaches of confidential patient information.
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He says it is impossible to know how many people have accessed leaked data
The Shadow ICT Minister says the breach is a betrayal of Tasmanian s trust
The unencrypted information came from pagers being used by paramedics.
Darren Hopkins, a partner at McGrathNicol a national company which advises governments and businesses on cybersecurity risks said it was very difficult to protect sensitive data on radio because it was such old technology.
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