Letters to the editor: Thursday, August 17, 2017

August 17 2017 - 6:00am
Barb Baker, of Longford suggests that it is hard to attract specialists to the Launceston General Hospital after it downgraded from a level three to a level two last December.
Barb Baker, of Longford suggests that it is hard to attract specialists to the Launceston General Hospital after it downgraded from a level three to a level two last December.

LGH Accreditation

I TRUST Health Minister Michael Ferguson is going to take the journalist to task (The Examiner, August 12) for reporting the Launceston General Hospital “was downgraded from a level three to a level two, following a visit from the college last December”. When I  suggested to the minister at the recent Northern Health Forum that  maybe the reason he was having difficulty attracting specialists to the LGH was the 'downgrading', I was taken to task in no uncertain terms.                        

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