“Former health minister Wyatt Creech is telling a huge
whopper when he claims that high patient satisfaction with
health professionals in public hospitals is due to his
former government’s ‘health reforms’,” said Mr Ian Powell,
Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical
Specialists, today.
“Over the past decade public hospitals
suffered systematic disruption and chaos because of the
commercialisation ideology of Mr Creech’s former government.
It is a tremendous credit to health professionals that they
were able to continue providing quality health care and
maintain public confidence in them on the smell of an oily
rag and despite the havoc caused by Mr Creech’s
policies.”
“Rather than generously rewriting history Mr
Creech should learn from rather than risk repeating the
mistakes of history.”
“Come on Wyatt! Your claim has as
much credibility as claiming that your failed ‘health
reforms’ were responsible for Rob Waddell winning a gold
medal at the Sydney Olympics,” concluded Mr Powell. Ian
Powell EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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