Labor's plan for the LGH (4/3/24)

The Examiner

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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