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Rockliff Dishonest on HealthThe 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 |
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ACEM Emergency Report Terrible – EDs Even Worse NowA new report shows Tasmania recording the worst results in the nation for emergency department performance Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 9 Nov 2022 |
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Health Failures Deepen - AgainThe 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 |
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No Excuses for Record Emergency Department PainThe Rockliff Government has chalked up yet another terrible milestone in health Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 4 Oct 2022 |
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Health – Emergency DepartmentsAn important measure of the performance of an emergency department is how many patients are being seen on time. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 6 Jun 2022 |
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RHH Crisis Won’t Be Fixed By SpinThe most recent HealthStats dashboard update paints a grim picture of a Royal Hobart Hospital in crisis. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 25 Sep 2021 |
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Hospital Emergency Department StaffingThe Department of Health dashboard for June shows the number of patients seen on time in our emergency departments was the lowest ever. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 26 Aug 2021 |
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ROGS Data Confirms Deepening Health CrisisThe 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 |
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Health – Ambulances and the Emergency DepartmentOnce 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 |
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Urgent Care Centre Report Welcome, Rollout Must be PrioritisedWe welcome the release of the feasibility study into Urgent Care Centres - after more than 18 months of it sitting on the Health Minister’s desk. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 8 Oct 2020 |
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Emergency Department at the LGHRosalie Woodruff contributes to Labor's Motion regarding the emergency department at the Launceston General Hospital. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 13 Nov 2019 |
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Effect of Budget Cuts on HospitalsNews from yesterday's coronial inquest into a suffering man's death by suicide at the Royal Hobart Hospital is shocking. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 31 Oct 2019 |
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Health System FundingSubsequent budgets have not been keeping up to the real costs of running the hospital system. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 19 Sep 2018 |
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Tasmania Lagging on Emergency Department Wait Times Under LiberalsThe AIHW report released today shows Tasmania’s two main hospitals are performing poorly compared to mainland hospitals. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 29 Nov 2017 |
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Issues at the Royal Hobart HospitalIn that last six days at the RHH there have been two category 4 escalations, four violent events and all elective surgeries have been cancelled. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 19 Sep 2017 |
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Ferguson's Band-aid Budget Won't Prevent RHH CrisisThere 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 |
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Coroner Confirms RHH Under-Resourcing Putting Patient Lives at RiskThe Coronial inquest into the 2015 death of a Royal Hobart Hospital patient found it could have been prevented. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 18 May 2017 |
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Ferguson Must Develop Winter Crisis Management Plan for RHHLast night in the Royal Hobart Hospital, 17 out of 27 patients were waiting for over 12 hours for a bed. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 16 May 2017 |
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Emergency Department Report Ignored by FergusonI rise to put some more context to the report the Minister for Health conducted last year as part of the patients' access initiative Patients First. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 8 Mar 2017 |
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Report on State's Sick Hospitals Ignored by LiberalsThe report of the expert review on the State's two biggest hospitals was handed to the Health Minister last August. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 28 Feb 2017 |
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Ferguson's RHH Christmas ChaosHealth Minister, Michael Ferguson, needs to take his fingers out of his ears and start listening to the doctors and nurses in the Royal Hobart Hospital. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 1 Dec 2016 |
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Hospital Decant Risks Patients' SafetySenior clinical staff warned Minister Ferguson that the reduction in Medical Ward beds at the decant is a serious risk to patient safety. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 22 Nov 2016 |
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Health Minister Ferguson Still Blaming Others for Emergency Department ChaosThe public record states that 9 out of 11 specialists from the Launceston General Hospital's Emergency Department have resigned. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 15 Jun 2016 |