Labor Health spokesperson Rebecca White and HACSU's Tim Jacobson have been once again caught out putting Labor's political tactics ahead of patients and criticising good news in health.
Yesterday, the Government revealed that there had been an 86 per cent reduction in ambulance ramping at the RHH after the Hodgman Liberal Government reopened the four-bed unit Labor had closed.
Rather than welcome good news on an issue both Labor and HACSU have raised publicly on many occasions, Ms White and Mr Jacobson chose to play politics, trying to claim the reduction statistics were 'deceptive', and that is was somehow invalid to compare the number of ramping incidents between September 2014 and January 2015.
Statistics show there were 251 ambulances ramped in January 2014, compared to 25 in January 2015. That's approximately a 90 per cent reduction comparing incidents from the same time of year, making a lie of the claim that the 86 per cent reduction since September was due to 'seasonal fluctuation'.
HACSU and Labor should desist from their scare campaigns in health, apologise for their scaremongering, and welcome the Government's decisive action to tackle the ramping issue which became rampant under Labor's management of health.