Health services
Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (13:55): The chaos and dysfunction of the Allan Labor government continues. This follows months of refusing to back down on savage funding cuts to health services across the state and directives from the department and letters from the minister demanding health services find savings of up to 40 per cent that would inevitably see a loss of services and a loss of jobs. The government, despite their rhetoric, is continuing to amalgamate health services by stealth. There has been no clarity around what funding each health service will receive, and it provides no assurances about what the cost will be to implement electronic medical records across the state. Furthermore, the disgraceful way in which the department and the government have handled the CEO of the Royal Children’s Hospital and the fallout from this has impacted morale amongst clinicians and staff. It is not only hospitals that are in chaos as a result of the Allan Labor government’s decisions but also Victoria’s ambulance services. Disaster responses are now becoming business as usual.