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Royal Hobart Hospital, Emergency Department Entrance

Greens’ Move for Ambulance Ramping Inquiry Successful

The Tasmanian Greens are pleased to have received the support of the House of Assembly to establish a Parliamentary Inquiry into ambulance ramping

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  9 Aug 2023


Royal Hobart Hospital, Emergency Department Entrance

Greens Release Ramping Inquiry Terms of Reference

Today the Tasmanian Greens have tabled the motion we will move in Parliament to establish a Parliamentary Inquiry into ambulance ramping

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  8 Aug 2023


Ambulance, Interior

Greens Announce Move for Ambulance Ramping Inquiry

Enough is enough. The Greens cannot stand by as the Liberals continue to normalise their increasingly dangerous hospital mismanagement.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  7 Aug 2023


Ambulance, Interior

Immediate Plan Needed for Ramping

New Health Minister Guy Barnett must immediately commit to a real plan to tackle both the underlying causes & the dangerous effects of ambulance ramping

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  2 Aug 2023


Royal Hobart Hospital, Emergency Department Entrance

Rockliff Dishonest on Health

The Premier claims the health system "is in the best place its been for a long time", but the government's own data says otherwise

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  20 Jul 2023


Ambulance, Interior

Coronial Findings Demand Urgent Action on Paramedic Mental Health

The Coroner has effectively put the Rockliff Government on notice over the mental health of paramedics.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  5 Jul 2023


Royal Hobart Hospital, Emergency Department Entrance

Liberals Shamefully Mislead on Ramping

Ambulance ramping requires urgent action, but the Liberals are apparently more interested in trying to mislead the community

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  18 Jun 2023


Ambulance, Interior

Health – Ambulances

I've got a bunch of questions, Premier, following on from previous annual reports and Estimates committees around ambulance ramping times.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  5 Jun 2023


Ambulance, Interior

Ambulance Tasmania State Operations Centre COVID 19 Payment

Last night all staff working at Ambulance Tasmania State Operations Centre got a letter telling them to pay back a $1000 COVID-19 appreciation payment.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  1 Jun 2023


Ambulance, Interior

Rockliff Refuses to Reverse Covid Repayment Demand

All staff working at Ambulance Tasmania’s State Operation Centre got a letter last night, demanding they pay back a $1000 Covid appreciation payment.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  1 Jun 2023


Doctor with Patient

Greens Release Plan for Healthy Essential Workforce

For a healthy, inclusive lutruwita/Tasmania, that genuinely leaves no one behind, we need a strong, well-resourced and valued public service.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  31 May 2023


Doctor with Face Mask

Crisis in Health Continues to Deepen

New data about healthcare in Tasmania shows a system that continues to deteriorate, and highlights the need for an ambitious response from the Government.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  2 Feb 2023


Royal Hobart Hospital, Emergency Department Entrance

Health Failures Deepen - Again

​​​​​​​The Department of Health’s Annual Report highlights the appalling continued decline of Tasmania’s health system under the Liberals.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  28 Oct 2022


Royal Hobart Hospital, Emergency Department Entrance

Health

Here we are nearly 18 months later and there is no change and in fact the wheels are falling off. They are falling off in hospitals and in Ambulance Tasmania.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  23 Aug 2022


Ambulance, Interior

How Many Tasmanians are Dying While Ramped?

It’s unclear from the Premier’s answer today whether Tasmania collects any data whatsoever about the welfare of ramped patients.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  16 Aug 2022


Ambulance, Interior

Urgent Action Needed on Ramping Crisis

A newly published Victorian study highlighting the harm caused to patients by ambulance ramping has important implications for Tasmania.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  1 Jul 2022


Ambulance, Interior

Police, Fire and Emergency Management – 000 ESTA

In Tasmania, if someone rings 000, Telstra answers first and they direct the person to one of three separate services.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  9 Jun 2022


Ambulance, Interior

Health – Ambulances and Paramedics

On the Saturday night, the day after, 14 May, there were no ambulances staffed at Huonville again, Dodges Ferry again and then at Glenorchy.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  6 Jun 2022


Royal Hobart Hospital, Emergency Department Entrance

Ambulance Response Times

One of the very large issues which has changed is the casualisation of much of the paramedic graduate workforce.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  24 May 2022


Ambulance, Interior

Ambulance Tasmania - Funding Issues

Words cannot do justice to the truly dire state of Tasmania's ambulance service.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  24 May 2022


Ambulance, Interior

Health - Paramedics and Ambulances

Last year in budget Estimates we asked the Minister to provide data for the number of code blue events that had occurred on the ramp at the Royal.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  6 Sep 2021


Ambulance, Interior

Prioritising Ambulances and Paramedics

Every Tasmanian knows Ambulance Tasmania is an essential part of our health system, and that paramedics do an incredible job of looking after our community.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  16 Apr 2021


Ambulance, Interior

Ambulance Tasmania - Death of Paramedic

The evidence presented to the coronial inquiry into the death of an Ambulance Tasmania (AT) paramedic makes shocking reading.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  18 Mar 2021


Doctor with Patient

ROGS Data Confirms Deepening Health Crisis

The latest Report on Government Services (ROGS) data for Health confirms Tasmania is in the midst of a health crisis that is worsening under the Liberals. 

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  28 Jan 2021


Ambulance, Interior

Privacy Failure Requires Urgent Investigation

The massive privacy incursion in to the lives of every Tasmanian who’s called an ambulance since last November is inexcusable. 

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  8 Jan 2021


Ambulance, Interior

Health – Ambulances and the Emergency Department

Once Emergency Department staff have taken any treatment of a patient on the ramp, that patient then becomes the responsibility of the Emergency Department.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  23 Nov 2020


Ambulance, Interior

Tasmanian Health Service

Although there are aspects of this amendment that we support, we do not support the principle of the majority of what is written.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  31 Jul 2019


Ambulance, Interior

Health Cuts

It is just a statement of fact that every single government from time immemorial has increased the Health budget year on year.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  30 Jul 2019


Ambulance, Interior

Child and Youth Mental Health

60,000 Tasmanians live in mental health distress every year. They suffer financial distress and social and financial impacts on their families and communities.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  30 May 2019


Ambulance, Interior

Auditor General's Emergency Department Report Demands Action

The Auditor General’s report into Tasmania’s hospital emergency departments is enormously confronting.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  28 May 2019


Police Officers in High Visibility Vests

Sentencing Amendment (Assaults On Off-Duty Police) Bill 2018

We have a long-held position based on the evidence that it is not appropriate to set legislation in parliament about mandatory sentencing levels.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  1 May 2019


Parliament House, Tasmania

Want of confidence in Minister for Health, Mr Ferguson

The evidence of the past five years has persuaded me that this minister is not able to appreciate and to act in consultation with his hard-working staff.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  30 Apr 2019


Drugs

Misuse of Drugs Amendment (Drug Analysis) Bill 2018

This bill amends the Misuse of Drugs Act 2001 by inserting a new Part 4A to establish a legal framework for lawful drug analysis pill testing.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  28 Nov 2018


Ambulance, Interior

Crisis in the Health System

The Greens agree with the general tenor of this motion. It is a bit of a political motion because it has an internal contradiction.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  17 Oct 2018


Royal Hobart Hospital, Emergency Department Entrance

Mental Health Funding

There have been documented occasions where people in severe distress have been forced to wait in the emergency department for numbers of days.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  16 Oct 2018


Ambulance, Interior

Want of Confidence in Minister for Health

In the paper today is exactly what we have been talking about: that this minister has persistently stood here and told fib after fib year after year.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  27 Sep 2018


Silhouette of Man with Cigarette in Hand

Preventative Health

It is a fundamental insight into the atomistic, individualistic responsibility that this minister puts onto a person taking them outside of their environment.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  19 Jun 2018


Hospital Bed

Extra $220M to Health in Greens' Alternative Budget

The Greens’ Alternative Budget prioritises what Tasmanians most want, fixing the State’s health system - currently at breaking point.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  31 May 2017


Royal Hobart Hospital, Emergency Department Entrance

Ferguson's Band-aid Budget Won't Prevent RHH Crisis

There is nothing in the State Budget to prevent the imminent winter flu crisis, and subsequent overcrowding, at the Royal Hobart Hospital.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  26 May 2017


Ambulance, Interior

Lives at Risk if Ambulance Tasmania Funding Missing from State Budget

The median Tasmanian ambulance response time of 14.1 minutes is the worst in the country. It’s far too long for people who need critical life support.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  19 May 2017


Ambulance, Interior

Reply to Premier's Address - Government Declares War on the Environment

The Labor Party, before this Government, has a long history of putting the environment last when it comes to salmon industry regulation.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  10 Mar 2017


Hospital Bed

Public Health Crisis

Under a neoliberal market-first privatisation ideology, the minister has systematically cut the funds to the Health department.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  17 Nov 2016


Ambulance, Interior

Ambulance Tasmania Pay Deal Welcome

The Greens welcome the news that our paramedics will now be paid appropriately for the critical role they play.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  20 Jul 2016


Blue Tier, Tasmanian Forest Agreement Forest

Ministers Failing to Answer Questions on Notice

It is disappointing to see the number of questions that were put on notice some time ago that have not yet been answered by ministers.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  26 Apr 2016


Ambulance, Interior

RHH Ambulance Ramping

The Premier, Will Hodgman, has failed on his pre-election promise to fix the chronic ambulance ramping problems at the Royal Hobart Hospital,.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  27 Aug 2014