Minister’s praise for Ouse health centre

NEW Tasmanian health minister Michelle O’Byrne told State Parliament last Thursday that she had visited the “health service” at Ouse recently and was incredibly impressed with the great work by the staff there. “All of them are now telling me that they are getting a much greater capacity to deal with the community and are offering far more services now than they were able to in the past, because they have been able to tailor their services to the needs of the community rather than a standard service that had been historically maintained,” Ms O’Byrne said, in reference to the debate over the conversion of the Ouse District Hospital into a health centre.