Labor has shown how desperate it’s become with a half-baked thought-bubble that would gut the Royal Hobart Hospital.
If it’s such a good idea why didn’t Ms White announce it two weeks ago?
The Labor leader didn’t even mention the word ‘health’ at her campaign launch, but now Ms White has cobbled together a last minute idea to build a new hospital at New Town.
What Labor is proposing simply doesn’t stack up.
Hospitals have to be staffed.
Labor’s proposal would require at least 170 staff and cost at least an additional $60 million a year to run.
The only way to staff such a facility would be to move surgeons and nurses from existing facilities.
Elective surgeries at the Royal would be severely impacted.
Emergency surgeries needed at the Royal would be compromised.
Labor’s so-called hospital doesn’t even have an Emergency Department.
How can you have a public hospital without emergency care?
It won’t help ramping, indeed it would make it worse by stretching resources.
Labor’s costings simply don’t add up. The cost of purchasing the land would have already skyrocketed following Labor’s underprepared and undeveloped promise.
A re-elected majority Rockliff Liberal Government”s 2030 Strong Plan for Tasmania’s Future will deliver nearly half a billion dollars of capital upgrades to hospital infrastructure across Tasmania.
