The Leader of the State Opposition, Will Hodgman, has congratulated the organisers of the Health and Wellbeing Expo, being held in Ulverstone today.
It is well known that there is a need for a greater emphasis on preventative health in Tasmania, with many of the health problems that Tasmanians suffer from being preventable.
We need to have clever solutions and plans to help the community become healthier. We need to educate people about the lifestyle choices they make, but more importantly, we need to provide support and assistance to people who want to make a healthy change.
This expo is a tremendous opportunity for people to share positive ideas about preventative health measures that at the end of the day will reduce the strain on the State’s health system and I am privileged to be attending it.
Involving the community in such a positive, forward-thinking event is the sort of initiative that I strongly support. I will be attendintg the expo later today.
The Tasmanian Liberals have been pushing for preventative care to be a key plank in Tasmania’s health strategy and one of our long standing policies is to create a Health Promotion Foundation and tasking it with implementing preventative health strategies throughout Tasmania.
Will Hodgman MP Leader of the State Opposition
