The government finally announced the Senate Enquiry we were calling for all along. I honestly never thought my small plea would lead to this outcome but you proved that we cannot be ignored when we act together. This belongs entirely to the people who spoke up when it mattered most.
November 23, 2018
Final supporters
7 times he has attempted suicide or been suicidal. The reason for him being turned away is that the hospital does not have enough beds. Patients spend days and nights sleeping in the emergency department or in hallways whilst staff do not know what to do with them as they have nowhere to put them. So only hours after attempting suicide, they are told they can leave. My brother was even given a bus ticket.
I am starting this petition to rally to the Minister for Health Michael Ferguson MP.
Minister Ferguson needs to make a change to the health system now. It has already been too late for too many families and loved ones as the change has been to slow. Too slow to make room for more beds. Too slow to find appropriate buildings to open up and separate the Mental Health patients from the main hospital.
Minister Ferguson, you need to listen to the people. Listen to what is actually happening in our hospital and it’s aftercare.
Tasmanian people are trying to bne heard. It is our health system. And you are the one that is responsible for change. So this petition Me Feeguson is to show you that the people want a Senate Enquiry into the Health System.
Time for you to do your job.
Save some lives !!!
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September 1, 2018
I am honestly overwhelmed by the momentum this is gaining. This movement belongs entirely to the people who took the time to read our story and demand better.
Reached 100 supporters
September 1, 2018
45 Comments
I lost my mum and sister to mental health I work as a care assistant at a local hospital supporting my patients the best I can
Please Honourable Michael Ferguson fight to get Tasmanians the health system they deserve. You know just as well as I do that bedblock and a lack of integrated services are two major things costing lives and pressure doctors to modify what their true diagnosis/ treatment plan would be were there the resources available that people required. I've lost a family member as a result of the current system and I can't tell you what impact that has had on my family. It also has a major ongoing efffect on the economy and health system as multiple family members struggle to go to work and use up professional resources to treat our grief.
I've signed this because the health system is aboustly appalling and needs to be fixed urgently. My 6 year old son was taken to hospital via ambulance on sunday night after having a seizure. After he had already told the doctor's he couldn't see properly we were still told to get out because they needed his bed. What the hell. And not to mention they were concerned given the history of epilepsy and yet still kicked him out. So a referral was done to see a pediatrician and urgently and been told we have to wait 3 mths for his appointment not to mention the tests he now requires.
We need a coordinated mental health system. Not the shambles we have between GP's, phycologists, Govt Dept eg Centrelink and hospitals all working in isolation. People & families are suffering under the overwhelming burdeon. We need a coordinated treatment policy funded with sufficent docters, clinics and beds.
I have first hand experience, both professionally and personally, of the dire concequences caused by the state of the current health care system in Tasmania and can tell you it is literally costing lives and will continue to do so unless dramatic change is made sometime in the immediate future
Do something good for once in your life, i bet if it was your family something would be done already
This man served our country and now needs help
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The government finally announced the Senate Enquiry we were calling for all along. I honestly never thought my small plea would lead to this outcome but you proved that we cannot be ignored when we act together. This belongs entirely to the people who spoke up when it mattered most.
November 23, 2018
Final supporters
7 times he has attempted suicide or been suicidal. The reason for him being turned away is that the hospital does not have enough beds. Patients spend days and nights sleeping in the emergency department or in hallways whilst staff do not know what to do with them as they have nowhere to put them. So only hours after attempting suicide, they are told they can leave. My brother was even given a bus ticket.
I am starting this petition to rally to the Minister for Health Michael Ferguson MP.
Minister Ferguson needs to make a change to the health system now. It has already been too late for too many families and loved ones as the change has been to slow. Too slow to make room for more beds. Too slow to find appropriate buildings to open up and separate the Mental Health patients from the main hospital.
Minister Ferguson, you need to listen to the people. Listen to what is actually happening in our hospital and it’s aftercare.
Tasmanian people are trying to bne heard. It is our health system. And you are the one that is responsible for change. So this petition Me Feeguson is to show you that the people want a Senate Enquiry into the Health System.
Time for you to do your job.
Save some lives !!!
Updates
September 1, 2018
I am honestly overwhelmed by the momentum this is gaining. This movement belongs entirely to the people who took the time to read our story and demand better.
Reached 100 supporters
September 1, 2018
45 Comments
As I have had all my family in at the public system. My brother in particular suffered and was basically fobbed off he had doctors that had no idea what was going on as one department doesn’t speak to the other. Then finally out into a nursing home at 56 to basically die!
I lost my mum and sister to mental health I work as a care assistant at a local hospital supporting my patients the best I can
Please Honourable Michael Ferguson fight to get Tasmanians the health system they deserve. You know just as well as I do that bedblock and a lack of integrated services are two major things costing lives and pressure doctors to modify what their true diagnosis/ treatment plan would be were there the resources available that people required. I've lost a family member as a result of the current system and I can't tell you what impact that has had on my family. It also has a major ongoing efffect on the economy and health system as multiple family members struggle to go to work and use up professional resources to treat our grief.
I've signed this because the health system is aboustly appalling and needs to be fixed urgently. My 6 year old son was taken to hospital via ambulance on sunday night after having a seizure. After he had already told the doctor's he couldn't see properly we were still told to get out because they needed his bed. What the hell. And not to mention they were concerned given the history of epilepsy and yet still kicked him out. So a referral was done to see a pediatrician and urgently and been told we have to wait 3 mths for his appointment not to mention the tests he now requires.
We need a coordinated mental health system. Not the shambles we have between GP's, phycologists, Govt Dept eg Centrelink and hospitals all working in isolation. People & families are suffering under the overwhelming burdeon. We need a coordinated treatment policy funded with sufficent docters, clinics and beds.
I have first hand experience, both professionally and personally, of the dire concequences caused by the state of the current health care system in Tasmania and can tell you it is literally costing lives and will continue to do so unless dramatic change is made sometime in the immediate future
Do something good for once in your life, i bet if it was your family something would be done already
This man served our country and now needs help
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As I have had all my family in at the public system. My brother in particular suffered and was basically fobbed off he had doctors that had no idea what was going on as one department doesn’t speak to the other. Then finally out into a nursing home at 56 to basically die!