The government will introduce legislation to reform management within the health system in the first week of Parliament next month.
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Essentially, the bill will remove the Tasmanian Health Organisation’s governing council, at a saving of $525,000 a year, and its chief executive David Alcorn, who earns $500,000 a year.
Health Minister Michael Ferguson said responsibilities over the management of the service will go the Health Department.
”(The bill) creates a new act to bring our health system under a single point of accountability and repeals the Tasmanian Health Organisations Act 2011, better suited to a large state with multiple health bureaucracies,” he said.