The Launceston General Hospital’s Emergency Dept. says that its staff is in desperate need of a fridge for staff food. You see they don’t want get ill and they do want to continue to treat the sick !
Presumably they have drawn this to the bureaucrats' attention and have received a rebuff. Alternately, it may well be the case that a bureaucratic culture has emerged within the hospital that deters staff from making such requests no matter how reasonable or necessary they may be.
In any event it speaks volumes about the state of affairs that exist in our hospitals and the levels to which the bungling has sunk.
Now that the news is out a few things need to be done. Firstly, let’s assume that the emergency staff really do need this refrigerator. Secondly, let’s discover what sort of refrigerator best fits their needs.Thirdly, let’s find a sponsor to fix the problem.
Let’s just cut through and fix this problem ASAP!
After that, well the NEWS about this needs to spread far and wide so that people in northern Tasmania, and the politicians who represent them, can start to get a handle on just how bad, and silly, things are getting at the Launceston General Hospital.
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You just have to wonder what it is that you have to do to get a politician’s attention, and once you’ve got it, what must you do to get them to take action?
If the problem is in Launceston and the politician lives in Hobart my guess is it would need to be some kind of miracle. You know, one like walking on water or turning water into wine, or better still or in this instance, turning water into good medicine.
If I thought that praying would to anything I would give it a go. I’ll give it a go anyway because it might help me calm down.
Oh my God, what a crisis!! Alert the politicians!! Bring back Robin Gray - he'll look after us!!
The biggest problem facing the LGH is a lack of a staff fridge in Emergency!!
Forget bed block, inability to attract qualified staff and the Fortress LGH mentality that sees the regional hospital as the centre of the universe. A fridge will Save the LGH!
No chance one of the specialists buying one out of their $20000 slush (TERF) allocation? Or from their lucrative Private Practice Scheme dividend? If you don't know what these are, ask them.
Then again its just so much easier to blame the pesky "southern based" politicians and bureaucrats. No chance that the problems might be within the LGH itself seeing that the CEO has control over his budget allocation. Or is such a thought to unpalatable for the LGH victim mentality to handle?
No wonder the LGH is in crisis.....
Well there is a crisis and the emergency staff probably do need a fridge. Robin Gray, as a Gunns Director, could probably sort it right now. Now there is a thought, are Gunns sponsors for the LGH already? It would be appropriate if Gunns were as their shareholders are earning more from Tasmania’s forests than the government is. So there is no joy there, or dividends, to help fix the problems in Tasmania’s hospitals.
Critics from “along the coast” might well say that the LGH CEO has the hospital’s solutions within his control and that he might be bungling the whole thing and it all might just be a parochial issue. But in the end there is a problem and you have to wonder who is stepping up to the plate to fix it.
It is unlikely that a fridge will fix all the problems but as sure as hell the lack of one where it is needed tells you that there is a bunch of problems, and more than probably, some that need to be fixed and with some urgency.
The way I understand it the LGH’s inability to attract staff has an awful lot to do with the Lara Giddings' Department’s in ability, or unwillingness, to advertise the positions in places overseas where there are people lining up to take positions in Australia and Tasmania even.
So from where I sit, the “bed blocks,” and other issues, would seem to trickle back into Minisiter Giddings' department’s court rather than the LGH’s internal administration’s. I may be wrong but around the wards the whispers are that the problems are with the department.
There are two possibilities worth exploring. The LGH’s local administration is incompetent, or something of the like, OR the department is being manipulative and devious or even dim witted. Either way it isn’t a good look so it is probably about time there was an open and independent enquiry (Royal Commission?) set up to get to the bottom of it all.
People are probably dying for the lack of real answers and it is time some politicians and administrators had a good long look at their performance, took their jobs more seriously and made some moves towards getting some answers.
This stooge from along the coast needs to do a bit of a reality check. I suspect he/she works for Lara Giddings and is trying to cover their boss’ bum here.
The Minister probably has a personal slush fund or two to tickle. She could find some funding for this fridge but why should she delve into her personal entitlements? If she shouldn’t be expected to do so, then why should doctors or senior nursing staff do it.
If you think about the hours the clinical staff in emergency departments put in, then any ‘special funding’ is probably needed for R&R so that they can keep on treating the sick I suspect. Just another perspective I guess.
Medic bashing is very uncool and this clown with bureaucratic sympathies from “along the coast” needs to take a good look at themselves. If they did I guess that they might get a bit of a fright.
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