Thursday, 28 August 2025

 Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:55): (1795) My question is to the Minister for Health. I have had a number of concerns raised with me by local constituents regarding the current state of care and patient support at Dandenong Hospital. It suggests a lack of funding in our health system. I ask: will you conduct an urgent review and provide improvements around food and nutrition supplies, basic standards of comfort for patient requirements and general overall issues around long wait times and under-resourced staff and facilities that are not meeting correct standards of health care and confirm that Dandenong Hospital is currently providing an adequate standard of care to patients and what immediate measures are being taken to ensure safe and timely access to health services? This should also be looked into for the much-needed funding of Casey, Frankston and Monash hospitals and the yet to be appropriately delivered so-called Cranbourne hospital.