The head of Tasmania’s new streamlined health service has offered to retrain senior managers at the Royal Hobart Hospital. The email asks clinical staff to speed up the discharge process at Tasmania’s biggest public hospital to free up beds, as the Emergency Department is at capacity and the situation is “getting worse”. It tells staff to “where possible” review what it terms “probable” and “potential” discharges. Tasmanian Health Service chief executive Dr David Alcorn, a psychiatrist, said that was not the way the hospital did business, but he was not going on a “witch hunt” to find the person responsible for the memo.
