Fair enough too. The best way to run a health system is to have No Doctors, No Patients and No Nurses. Any economist will tell you that those three things are the most inefficient part of a health system.

All this ad. shows is that the Tasmanian gov’t lie continuously…They have no money for frontline services, yet they can offer ,presumabley, huge salaries for more ‘fatcats’ in the form of CEOs. Hypocritical overpaid bastards, the lot of them regardless of party.

Unbeleivable!!!

And how much of the health cuts are these (people)  taking?

Time for health workers to ban all services to Government Ministers and their families indefinitely.

Whoever is appointed will also need a very thick skin, fast reflexes and excellent body armour to avoid the back stabbers; above all they will need to fail at the job - success will be heavily penalised.

In response to Senator Helen Polley letter {examiner 21/10 no petition }. I suggest she check again with her office as the petition was sent on 18/10 at 2.15pm.
Your comment i was discourteous in sending people to your office to sign a petition.
I would remind Senator Polley , her position in public office is to be servant to , and for the people she purports to represent.
Senator Polley,s comments i do not necessarily agree with my comments , clearly indicates she supports the massive cuts in health funding at all hospitals in Tasmania by Minister for Health Michele O,Byrne M.H.A . and the Labor Government.
In future i will direct petitions and comments from concerned citizens to Mr.Geoff Lyons M.H.R.  who has accepted the petition
I again congratulate L.C.C. candidate Nick Hutchinson petition of the 7/10 . to the Prime Minister to intervene in the Hospitals crisis In Tasmania , and our member for Launceston in the Legislative Council Rosemary Armitage who is active and representing the community in northern Tasmania as one would expect of a caring politician , along with the leading article in the Examiner which accurately portrays the crisis confronting Launceston General Hospital as raised by Doctor Scott Parkes president of the medical staff association.
Whilst Senator Polley will enjoy a further 5 years as a Senator ,failing a double dissolution, front line health professional and administration staff will not have that security of employment.

Thank goodness the Greens have balance of power in the Senate.
As Baroness former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stated , { we can not have everyone opening and closing doors }
To show your concern attend the Rally in Royal Park on Saturday 29th October
Australia all over {A.B.C. 23/10 } advertised this rally and also stated politicians were not listening to the concerns of the population.                                                        BRIAN P.KHAN                                                           Newstead
                                (former Northern Regional Health Board Chairman}

Wonder if Tasmania’s ‘branding’ features an extinct animal is far more than merely symbolic?

There seems to be some confusion as to whatever the devil this Health minister Michelle O’Byrne is up to, in wanting more Fat-Cat CEOs to deal with departments that we are to believe were functioning quite well as the situation has been over the past say 8-10 years?

When we consider that right across the DHHS spectrum, to the claims of the planned job cuts and the reduction in budget allocations to each and every sector of health in the State, the culling of names from elective surgery waiting lists and so on, the numbers suggest otherwise?

Just what is and why are their these needs to employ more of the New Bohunka CEOs to lord it over the expected reduced departmental budgets and personnel numbers, in each of these departments?

Could the carefully considering readers out their in the Tas Times reader-ship ranks offer why the hiring proposals of Michelle O’Byrne could possess any possible merit?

I’d be almost willing to bet that the people, to fill these positions, have already been promised the positions and the advertising is a mere formality to make it all look legitimate. The gov’t and their hangersoners are forever finding positions for their families (relatives of some kind), friends and the cronyism that seems to prosper in this state. We have all heard of positions that have been ‘created’ for people…

#7 - if you recall they let their pet Secretary sack the last guy for no good reason and word has it that the stress of being in charge of 2/3 of the state’s hospitals is catching up with the acting Ms Holden so that’s the first one and the second one is to replace the bloke who decided to get a job in NZ rather than continue to be part of the catastrophe a moment longer.  These aren’t new jobs. 

Thing is, after what they did to the last guy and what they are doing to the health budget, you would have to be crazy to apply.

DHHS is pretty much career suicide….

Thank you both respondents #8 & #9 I feel that between us we have nailed to the wall the realities of the upper-level connivance’s and constant maladministration that has become the symbol of this State’s DHHS.

Essentially the major problems that arise in the DHHS are carelessly put together then cooked up and served up by both the DHHS minister and the superficial over-lording high and mighty top office heavyweights!

Seems to me the whole lot of ‘ém (apart from Jane Holden trying to carry the can for all those others,) need to spend a few weeks in the real world, even if it is to be a bit of blitz cleaning around the still functioning under-staffed hospital wards?