The Labor Party has promised to reduce waiting lists for elective surgery and provide more beds to patients in Northern Tasmania. Video by Aaron Smith (4/3/24)
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00:00 We're very proud to work with Jerome and his team to deliver more beds here in Launceston.
00:06 This is a project, as you can see, we're standing in that is currently under construction.
00:11 By next year these beds will be available to support the LGH taking pressure off a very busy
00:18 and very under-resourced hospital to support them with more beds and more staff. Our Labor
00:25 Government will support the leasing of these 20 beds, staffing them with staff from the LGH to
00:31 provide access to more patient care here in Launceston. And I want to make it very clear
00:36 that we are committed in the long term to a co-located private hospital proposal here
00:42 in the north of the state and in our first 100 days of government we will commit to a round table
00:47 bringing together public health providers, private health providers, unions and key stakeholders
00:54 to look at a plan for more sustainable and collaborative services here across northern
01:00 Tasmania to develop a partnership around that. It's been three decades since Tasmania's had a
01:05 new private hospital and this partnership will allow doctors to be attracted to the state
01:12 with state-of-the-art health facilities that would otherwise not be here working in Tasmania.
01:17 We need health facilities and doctors and this project gives us both.
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