00:03Sounding the alarm over Tasmania's embattled health system.
00:07Why are we still in a state of perpetual crisis?
00:10These problems are connected and we have to stop looking at them as one problem at a time.
00:16Hospitals bursting at the seams.
00:18Waitlists blowing out.
00:20Ambulances ramping.
00:21Long held concerns about Tasmania's health system have been amplified in the last week,
00:26following the death of a man whose family drove him to hospital after an ambulance took more than an hour
00:32to arrive.
00:34The Australian Medical Association now wants a commission of inquiry into the system.
00:39Make sure that the state is spending the resources we have in the right place
00:43so we can get the most we can out of our budget and our health system.
00:47The commission of inquiry potentially takes years.
00:50It takes tens of millions of dollars of investment and doesn't help a single patient on the way through.
00:56As part of the treasurer's budget cuts,
00:59700 million dollars worth of services and staff are being stripped from the health department.
01:04One and a half billion in total from all departments in the name of budget repair.
01:10We are committed to this course of action.
01:12There are efficiencies we can find in our public service.
01:16Among others, job losses at TMAG, Arts Tasmania and the Education Department's Specialist Disability Team
01:23have all been proposed.
01:25A new report from the Labor-aligned McKell Institute is warning
01:29the cuts could be disastrous for public services.
01:33It warns 10,000 people could be added to the outpatient waiting list,
01:38regional hospitals would suffer
01:39and the state's capacity to respond to economic disruptions would be harmed.
01:44If the government had any sense, they'd actually look at the plethora of evidence
01:51and community voices and other advocates who are saying,
01:54you are going the wrong way about this.
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