The Rockliff Liberal Government is doing what matters for Tasmanians by investing record amounts into health services.
The Minister for Health, Guy Barnett, has welcomed the commencement this week of 13 new paramedics who have relocated from interstate, together with 15 paramedics who were on fixed-term contracts taking up permanent employment with Ambulance Tasmania.
“Together with the 220 Ambulance Tasmania-Award staff we’ve added since 2014, it’s small wonder recent Productivity Commission figures found our state has among the highest per-capita paramedic numbers in the country,” said Minister Barnett.
“The Rockliff Liberal Government's $8.3 million-a-day investment into Health comes alongside our transformational plan to reduce transfer of care delays and improve patient access and flow across the health system.
“We’ve introduced measures like our 60-minute transfer protocol, urgent patient offload, and the Safe for Emergency Department waiting room pathway.
"Productivity Commission figures released earlier this month revealed Tasmania’s out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rate is the second highest in the nation, and almost 10 per cent greater than the national average."