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• People and Culture have engaged a Talent Acquisition Specialist to support recruitment.
6. The ACT Government invested $30 million in the public health system to support the recovery of services impacted by the COVID-19 shutdown, including funding for additional outpatient appointments. Other actions to reduce waitlists have been undertaken within existing resources.
7. To collate the answer for this question, the scope of those reviewed and included was based on skill set of all Specialist, Senior Specialists and Visiting Medical Officers (VMOs) working within the Division of Women, Youth and Children (WYC).
Specialists are engaged at CHS as salaried staff and VMOs details provided in Table 5 below are reflective of staff paid or under contract as of 30 June each year.
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2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 | |
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Total |
46 |
58 |
80 |
90 |
100 |
110 |
NB: In order to collate the answer for this question, the scope of those reviewed and included was based on skill set of Obstetrician, Paediatrician (including Cardiology, Surgeon, Oncologists), Neonatologist, Geneticists, and Children’s Plastic Surgeons. Also included in the collation were General Practitioners contracted and on staff to provide clinical services to children throughout the requested period.
8. All funded positions within paediatric services of WYC at Canberra Hospital are fully recruited with the exception of the following:
a. General Paediatrics by two senior medical officers. Both positions are being actively recruited to; and
b. Paediatric Rheumatology by one part time medical officer. WYC is working with the Division of Medicine to appoint to this position.
Alexander Maconochie Centre—mental health services
(Question No 687)
Mrs Kikkert asked the Minister for Justice Health, upon notice, on 25 March 2022:
(1) Why has the updated arrangement between the Justice and Community Safety Directorate and ACT Health not been sighted or signed by ACT Corrective Services (ACTCS).
(2) If the updated arrangement has now been signed, what was the reason it was not sighted or signed by ACTCS at the time of the Auditor General’s 2022 report into mental health services in the Alexander Maconochie Centre.
(3) Did ACTCS have any concerns about signing this arrangement; if so, what were those concerns.
(4) When did development of the service level agreement (SLA), under the updated arrangement, begin.
(5) At what stage is the development of the SLA at now.
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