Broadmeadows electorate
Mr McGUIRE (Broadmeadows) (14:37): (6517) My question is to the Minister for Health. How will improvements to Ambulance Victoria’s operations at Northern Hospital benefit residents in the state district of Broadmeadows? This is even more timely and relevant given the contributions during question time. I am referring to the Victorian virtual emergency departments. This is a great initiative, and it has the capacity to ensure that up to 500 patients per day have access to a video consultation with an emergency doctor or nurse, from their own home. These include paramedics connecting suitable patients to the program on scene for virtual assessment, management and referral. I was delighted years ago to help develop this strategy. We were targeting it for the extension of the Broadmeadows Hospital. It has been fast-forwarded and implemented in the Northern Hospital, where the demand is the greatest, and we want to just see how we can drive this further, as the minister was saying in her answers in question time.