Sometimes words fail me, but not today.
Today I write for my wife and for the countless voiceless at the mercy of a strangled health system.
For those reading, if you would like to forward this to somewhere that may inspire action from our government and opposition, then please do.
I write an open letter to the Premier, the minister for health and to the Greens leader for their part in the continuing debacle that is the Tasmanian health system.
Today, for the second time in as many months, my wife and I have witnessed first hand the result of inept governance, obvious lack of accounting and budgeting skills and the decline in morale foisted upon health care workers.
Booked in for level two surgery, and after waiting most of the day patiently for some sign of action, the apparent lack of staff, obviously overworked, but still managing to conduct themselves in a thorough and professional manner, advised us that there would be no surgery for Angela today.
Perhaps it will be third time lucky?
Angela’s procedure is straightforward enough and should involve just an overnight stay all things equal, but left unchecked it can become a problem and would require weeks off work.
This is the time bomb she carries.
For her to miss work would eat into her rarely used sick leave, but also causes a flurry of rescheduling workers at her employ and this has to be all undone and rearranged
now she won’t be on sick leave next week.
What a shemozzle!
Here we have a government (and not to be left out, the self proclaimed genius opposition) who are on an endless cycle of job promotion as a lock step mantra that spews forth across the varied media on an almost daily basis.
Being self employed, I’ve had to cancel some work and reschedule other clients not once but twice now and the novelty has worn off with still no result for Angela in sight.
Aside from the cost to us, imagine the waste of resources from the hospital’s perspective as Angela goes through every process except the operation itself.
From a business perspective, if I was to run a show like this, I would have been out the back door a long time ago.
On what basis can the government and the minister justify their jobs?
Why is this ineptitude, lack of foresight and deep-seated managerial malaise allowed to continue and indeed, it appears rewarded with continued tenure?
Sincerely null and void,
Dave Groves
Talbot Road
Launceston.
