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            <title>Advice on a Healthy Tasmania</title>
            <link>http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=34135</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Nine community members dedicated to promoting and creating a healthy Tasmania have been appointed to provide advice to the Tasmanian Government.
The Minister for Health, Michelle O&rsquo;Byrne, announced the new Advisory Council after meeting its members for the first time in Hobart yesterday.&nbsp;
&nbsp;
Ms O&rsquo;Byrne said that she had asked the Advisory Council to provide advice about the...]]></description>
            <author>Tasmanian Government</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Government Report Shows Positives</title>
            <link>http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=34129</link>
            <description><![CDATA[&nbsp;
Embargoed until 1am, January 31.
The Minister for Health, Michelle O&rsquo;Byrne, said a new Australian Government report confirms the strength of Tasmanian health services compared with other states and territories.
&nbsp;
Ms O&rsquo;Byrne said it was important to remember the national Report on Government Services 2012 was built on data largely 18 months out of date, the bulk of which...]]></description>
            <author>Tasmanian Government</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Support for campaign to help heal wounds quicker</title>
            <link>http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=34125</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Minister for Health, Michelle O&rsquo;Byrne, today gave her support to a campaign highlighting the struggle some Australians have in accessing important wound healing treatment.
Ms O&rsquo;Byrne met with the President of the Australian Wound Management Association, Dr Bill McGuiness, in Hobart today and was briefed on the significant burden wounds place on both an individual and the health sy...]]></description>
            <author>Tasmanian Government</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Expanded Emergency Department at the LGH</title>
            <link>http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=34119</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Minister for Health, Michelle O&rsquo;Byrne, said work to more than double the capacity of the Launceston General Hospital&rsquo;s Emergency Department is just days away from completion.
Ms O&rsquo;Byrne said finishing touches were being made to the expansion with the first patients due to be treated in the new space as soon as it has been commissioned.
&nbsp;
&ldquo;This project is a key m...]]></description>
            <author>Tasmanian Government</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Unions Must Get Facts Straight</title>
            <link>http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=34110</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Minister for Health, Michelle O&rsquo;Byrne, today called on unions to check their facts before stoking fears in the community and attacking staff in the health system.
&nbsp;
Ms O&rsquo;Byrne said the Health and Community Services Union today put out a media statement alleging a &ldquo;crisis&rdquo; in a department of the Launceston General Hospital caused by &ldquo;bureaucrats&rdquo; in Ho...]]></description>
            <author>Tasmanian Government</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Your Health and Human Services Progress Chart</title>
            <link>http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=34091</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Minister for Health, Michelle O&rsquo;Byrne, said today that the latest health Progress Chart showed Tasmania&rsquo;s public hospitals were continuing to meet national targets for elective surgery wait times.
&nbsp;
Ms O&rsquo;Byrne said the quarterly Your Health and Human Services Progress Chart showed that all four hospitals had median wait times of less than the benchmark 48 days.
&nbsp;...]]></description>
            <author>Tasmanian Government</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Royal Hobart Hospital Redevelopment Right on Track</title>
            <link>http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=34080</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Minister for Health, Michelle O&rsquo;Byrne, today announced another important milestone in the Royal Hobart Hospital redevelopment following Commonwealth Government approval of the integrated project plan.
&nbsp;
Ms O&rsquo;Byrne said enormous work had gone into the plan that, now approved, allows a &#036;5 million payment from the Commonwealth to flow to the project.
&nbsp;
&ldquo;The re...]]></description>
            <author>Tasmanian Government</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Liberals Continue to Avoid Taking a Position</title>
            <link>http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=34048</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Minister for Health, Michelle O&rsquo;Byrne, today called on the Liberal Party to clarify its position regarding the new chairman of the State&rsquo;s three Tasmanian Health Organisations.
&nbsp;
Ms O&rsquo;Byrne said either one hand of the Liberal Party doesn&rsquo;t know what the other is doing or the Party is trying to use this important appointment as a chance to play politics in the fut...]]></description>
            <author>Tasmanian Government</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Chairperson Appointed for Tasmanian Health Organisations</title>
            <link>http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=34040</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Minister for Health, Michelle O&rsquo;Byrne, today announced Graeme Houghton will be the first chairperson of the State&rsquo;s three Tasmanian Health Organisations.
&nbsp;
Ms O&rsquo;Byrne said the selection was a significant step forward for national health reform and the establishment of Tasmanian Health Organisations (THOs), which come into force this year.
&nbsp;
&ldquo;Mr Houghton is...]]></description>
            <author>Tasmanian Government</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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