Nurses at Tasmania's biggest public hospital are threatening strike action as COVID pushes the facility to its highest escalation level and the state records its highest ever daily death toll from the virus.
Nurses at Tasmania's biggest public hospital are threatening to go on strike next week as the state's health service faces increasing pressure from a surge in COVID cases.
"This includes expediting the discharge of patients who are medically fit to leave hospital and utilising all available bed capacity," Ms Morgan Wicks said. All of Tasmania's major public hospitals are already at level three of their COVID escalation management plans, meaning elective surgeries are being reviewed and may be postponed.
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