Yesterday, Bec White was claiming that I was interfering in hospital management, in particular when a Code Yellow (internal disaster, e.g. power outage, water leak) should be called at the Royal Hobart Hospital – a claim that is as false as it is ridiculous.
Today, Ms White has changed her tune and was demanding that I start calling Code Yellow alerts at the Royal Hobart Hospital.
She can’t have it both ways and it once again highlights that she simply doesn’t have a grasp on the difficult issues that Governments are confronted with.
We are working with the staff in our health system to make it better. We are injecting record amounts of funding to provide the best services possible. We are getting on with the job of rebuilding the Royal Hobart Hospital after Labor all but wrecked it.
Ms White is an inexperienced political opportunist who fell into the top job and is showing on a daily basis why she just can’t be trusted.
She knows that the hospital based escalation policies are there to support staff to manage surges in patient demand, not to be argued on the floor of Parliament as a political football.