THE community is continuing the push for a hospice in Northern Tasmania.
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Members of the Friends of the Northern Hospice urged the community to complete an online survey as part of the government's $100,000 feasibility study into a Northern hospice.
Friends of the Northern Hospice chairwoman Barb Baker said she was disappointed there had not been a public forum for community members to voice their opinions.
She said the fact that an online survey or by phone were the only ways to participate was discriminatory against older people who could not easily access or use a computer.
"We believe the online survey will exclude some people from participating and they may not be comfortable speaking to an interstate person if they phone in to an express an opinion," she said.
Mrs Baker also said she felt the survey questions were "too simplistic", and asked community members to keep this in mind when completing the survey.
Health Minister Michael Ferguson said the consultation process was "extensive and ongoing", and had included "inviting open online as well as taking written submissions, conducting interviews and meetings with a range of internal and external stakeholders".
The current hospice @HOME project allows patients to die in their own home, but is being eval-uated by the Australian government.
Denison independent MHR Andrew Wilkie recently criticised the Prime Minister for not continuing extra funding to the Tasmanian health system.
The funding came from a 2012 Gillard government commitment of $325 million over four years to improve healthcare in the state.
Mr Wilkie said the Prime Minister had "made no mention of extending the funding" for palliative care run by district nurses.
Mr Ferguson said Hobart District Nursing service, the operator of hospice@HOME, had "indicated that the rollover of existing funds [would] enable it to continue to service existing clients until March, 2017".
Bass Liberal MHR Andrew Nikolic said he was a supporter of the Hospice @HOME program.
"I fought for this program, the hospice@HOME program, and I've been pestering Health Minister Sussan Ley to ensure that it continues," he said.