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It’s critical that when Victorians call for an ambulance, the ambulance arrives on time and is available readily. That’s what we’re committed to, and that’s what Victorians want. 
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  • Victoria's health system is in crisis. Labor's mismanagement has increased waiting times and created huge waiting lists for hospital services and ambulances.
    Victoria’s health system should be world-class but instead is in a state of crisis because of Labor’s incompetence. Victorian’s are forced to rely on less public hospital beds and less public dentists per head of population than their interstate counterparts.

    The Brumby Government has been caught out deliberately manipulating waiting list data to make Victorian public hospitals’ performance appear better than is actually the case.

    Even on the manipulated data released by the Brumby Government, more than 37,000 patients are sitting on hospital waiting lists, sometimes for years, before receiving treatment. Doctors state that patients are dying in Victorian hospitals as a direct result of the Brumby Government’s mismanagement.

    Victorian hospitals have been mismanaged by Labor, leaving tens of thousands of Victorians on surgery waiting lists, outpatient lists and waiting in emergency departments.

    In the last year, hundreds of thousands of Victorians were not treated within the government benchmark and 85,000 emergency department patients were not admitted to a hospital bed within the required time.

    Our overworked paramedics and ambulances can’t get to injured Victorians in time because of shortages in Melbourne and across country areas. Victorian dental health services simply cannot cope and the Brumby Government has allowed dental waiting times and waiting lists to increase.

    In Opposition John Brumby promised to fix Victoria's health system and make sure people don't have to wait for a hospital bed.

    In government after more than a decade Brumby's Labor Government has manipulated hospital waiting lists and failed to fix our system which has deteriorated.

    Victorians deserve better than a government that constantly claims “there’s more to be done” but for a decade has allowed the sick and vulnerable to suffer from inadequate healthcare while deceitfully attempting to cover up how bad the situation has actually become on its watch.



  • A Victorian Liberal Nationals Coalition Government will upgrade Belgrave, Emerald and Yarra Junction ambulance stations to 24-hour coverage.

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  • 12 JULY 2010 – Channel 10 News
    Five years after the Labor Government promised to introduce a “smart” ticketing system, myki is being slammed as the government's white elephant, with more than $1 billion of taxpayers’ money spent on a system that still does not work.
  • 23 JUNE 2010 – Channel 7 News
    The Auditor-General has uncovered $3 billion in secret government deals with a third of major contracts, including public transport deals, hidden from the public. Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu says John Brumby is running a secret state.
  • 14 JUNE 2010 – Channel 9 News
    John Brumby has spent over $1.2 million of taxpayers' money monitoring the media and analysing transcripts of every story broadcast or written about his government. This is on top of the cost of employing 26 media advisers.

  • Casey Hospital blunders revealed
    13 July 2010

    FRESH claims of diagnostic blunders have been levelled at Casey Hospital, with a man suffering a major stroke after being sent home.

    The new allegations come after the Herald Sun revealed Kate Newton, 16, almost died of suspected meningitis after staff at the Berwick hospital sent her home twice in three days, and a woman was refused treatment for a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy.

    … Opposition health spokesman David Davis said Victorians had a right to expect good quality health care when they visited the emergency department at Casey Hospital and elsewhere.

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  • Ambo stress leave soars
    11 July 2010

    STRESSED Victorian ambulance employees took 4342 days off work in a year , with more than four workers a week taking stress leave of 10 days or more.

    Paramedics, MICA specialists, operational staff and clinical transport officers lodged 236 WorkCover claims between April last year and March 31, Ambulance Victoria figures obtained by the Sunday Herald Sun through Freedom of Information reveal.

    The figures, which do not include stress claims of fewer than 10 days, show the average ambulance employee took more than 18 days off to recover from illness or injury.

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  • Staffed ambulance station at Beaufort
    01 July 2010

    BEAUFORT will get a new, professionally staffed ambulance station if the Coalition is elected in November.

    Speaking in Ballarat yesterday, Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu said the station would be built on a site chosen by Ambulance Victoria.

    Beaufort is currently staffed by a Community Emergency Response Team, whose members only have a Certificate II in Emergency Management.

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