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822EconomyPublic Hospitals: Cost up, Services down, Safety poor
A new report on Tasmania’s public hospital performance has found the number of hospital doctors fell by 206, or 21%, on a...
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955Economy
Health: These newest cuts simply worsen an already dire situation
‘Sustainability’ and the great health cost shift The Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the Health Minister have all used the same word...
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950Economy
Audit: Staggering ignorance of health care funding. Diesel rebate: Policy insanity
Some notes on the Commission of Audit recommendations as they affect health … In brief, the audit report reveals a staggering ignorance...
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979Economy
Andrew Wilkie: The rebuild is a mess and the previous State Government misled the community
I share new Tasmanian Health Minister Michael Ferguson’s assessment that the situation with the rebuild of the Royal Hobart Hospital is “appalling.”...
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1.1KArts
A Festival of Waste
With a subsidy of about $2.3 million dollars for each biennial event, the Ten Days on the Island festival is the Tasmanian...
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870Health
How to fix our hospitals
Tasmania’s public hospitals cost the people of this state at least 20% more than is justified by the work they do. The...
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851Economy
Hospital doctor numbers slashed by 120 after cuts
The number of doctors in Tasmanian public hospitals fell by 120 on a full-time equivalent basis ‒ or 12.6% ‒ in the...
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821Economy
The health money-go-round
The buck stops here: Health Minister Michelle O’Byrne and Premier Lara Giddings. Picture: Rob Walls, http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ The failure of Tasmania’s hospitals to...
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1.1KEconomy
The worst in Australia
The buck stops here: Health Minister Michelle O’Byrne and Premier Lara Giddings. Picture: Rob Walls, http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ Access to elective surgery in Tasmanian...
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1.0KEconomy
Why are our public hospitals so wasteful?
The buck stops here: Health Minister Michelle O’Byrne and Premier Lara Giddings. Picture: Rob Walls, http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ Every year for the past fifteen,...
