00:01Walking off the job at the weekend, nurses and midwives have made clear what they want.
00:07Pay rise!
00:08When are they going to give it to us?
00:09Now!
00:10The government's offer of an 8.25% pay rise over three years has been rejected by
00:15Health and Community Service Union members.
00:17They're aiming for what the Premier got.
00:20It's pretty crazy that nurses can be offered 8% over three years when Tassie politicians
00:25have just accepted a 22% pay increase in the same breath.
00:29People say put politicians on nurses' wages but I think we should be opting for almost
00:34what they have just given themselves which is just ridiculous.
00:37The nursing federation didn't even put the offer to members.
00:41It simply was not good enough to be able to put before our members.
00:45The state government says it's committed to negotiating in good faith over pay rises.
00:49But on a commission of inquiry into the health system, it's a flat no.
00:54Despite the nurses' union voicing its support for an inquiry,
00:58saying it would be money well spent.
01:01The people at the top really don't understand what is happening at the coalface.
01:04I've been watching this get worse and worse over years.
01:08When you don't think it's going to get any worse, it does.
01:11Meanwhile the opposition has been tracking figures like ambulance weights
01:15and how quickly patients in emergency departments are seen.
01:18The health department used to give monthly updates for a range of indicators
01:23and show an entire year's worth of data.
01:26Now for many of them it's just single day figures and going back one week.
01:31The government says that's more transparent.
01:35What that actually means is it's much harder to compare the performance of the health system over time.
01:40As for what Labor's figures show, 17 minute ambulance response times in October.
01:4610% worse than last year's average.
01:49And just 30% of patients at the Royals emergency department seen on time.
01:55Stats a government might not want to show off.
01:58It's took a little bit more before.
01:58It's working.
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