Tasmania's Health Minister Michael Ferguson has retained his portfolio in the newly re-elected Hodgman Liberal government following the March 3 election, while former shadow spokesman for health in South Australia Stephen Wade has been named as the new Marshall Liberal government's Minister for Health and Wellbeing.

Mr Ferguson, who was sworn in yesterday, faces a serious problem with ambulance ramping at Royal Hobart Hospital and the withdrawal of accreditation from emergency medicine training at Launceston General Hospital.