Health minister reinvents wheel - Zuvele Leschen
The Federal Government should look at bush nursing hospitals as their model for community run hospitals, the Labor candidate for Indi, Zuvele Leschen, said today.
In an interview on the ‘Sunday’ program this morning, the Minister for Health, Tony Abbott, said that the reason behind the $45 million takeover of the Mersey Hospital was:
“to see just how well this can be done…it is not who runs the hospitals but how they are run and I think that a community controlled public hospital is going to work much better than a hospital which is run by bureaucrats, whether they are federal bureaucrats or state bureaucrats.”
“Indi already has hospitals which are community owned and operated in the way that the Federal Government is proposing for the Mersey hospital,” Zuvele Leschen said.
“They’re the former bush nursing hospitals at Yackandandah, Chiltern, Walwa and Euroa.”
“For a fraction of the cost of the Mersey takeover, the Federal Government could find out all it wants to know about community run hospitals.”
“Any of these hospitals could explain how they operate, what services they deliver, and come up with costings to show how they could do it better.”
“Instead of one hospital in Tasmania duplicating the work of a nearby hospital, we could have hospitals such as the one at Euroa – the only health service provider in Strathbogie Shire – delivering needed services in a sustainable fashion for a fraction of the cost.”
Mrs Leschen said that Mr Abbott may be unaware of the existence of bush nursing hospitals and their unique management structures, as the majority of these hospitals are in the electorate of Indi.
“The member for Indi must be an advocate for these hospitals,” she said. “There’s really noone else who can do that.”
“As the member for Indi, I would work with the former bush nursing hospitals to try and determine long term strategies to ensure they continue to deliver needed services for their communities.”
In an interview on the ‘Sunday’ program this morning, the Minister for Health, Tony Abbott, said that the reason behind the $45 million takeover of the Mersey Hospital was:
“to see just how well this can be done…it is not who runs the hospitals but how they are run and I think that a community controlled public hospital is going to work much better than a hospital which is run by bureaucrats, whether they are federal bureaucrats or state bureaucrats.”
“Indi already has hospitals which are community owned and operated in the way that the Federal Government is proposing for the Mersey hospital,” Zuvele Leschen said.
“They’re the former bush nursing hospitals at Yackandandah, Chiltern, Walwa and Euroa.”
“For a fraction of the cost of the Mersey takeover, the Federal Government could find out all it wants to know about community run hospitals.”
“Any of these hospitals could explain how they operate, what services they deliver, and come up with costings to show how they could do it better.”
“Instead of one hospital in Tasmania duplicating the work of a nearby hospital, we could have hospitals such as the one at Euroa – the only health service provider in Strathbogie Shire – delivering needed services in a sustainable fashion for a fraction of the cost.”
Mrs Leschen said that Mr Abbott may be unaware of the existence of bush nursing hospitals and their unique management structures, as the majority of these hospitals are in the electorate of Indi.
“The member for Indi must be an advocate for these hospitals,” she said. “There’s really noone else who can do that.”
“As the member for Indi, I would work with the former bush nursing hospitals to try and determine long term strategies to ensure they continue to deliver needed services for their communities.”
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