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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
The following answers to questions were provided:
Public Service
(Question No. 9)
Mr Moore asked the Minister for Community Services and Health, upon notice, on 27 June:
(1) What is the actual number of employees employed by the ACT Community and Health Service in administrative tasks as distinct from providing health care service to the public?
(2) What proportion of the total annual salary budget was paid for administrative staff for the last financial year for which figures are available?
Mr Berry: The answer to the member's question is as follows:
It is, of course, difficult to define what should be described as administration, particularly in an organisation as diverse as the ACT Community and Health Service.
The service delivery areas range from the management of Belconnen Remand Centre, and Quamby, the provision of welfare payments, grants to community organisations and the management of community facilities, the health centre program, community health services as well as the public hospital system.
However, this financial year, the ACT Community and Health Service employed about 833 full-time equivalent staff in administrative tasks out of a total of about 5,255.
To the end of May, the ACT Community and Health Service paid 15.4 per cent of its salaries to administrative staff.
These figures include areas such as patient billing, payroll, general accounting and personnel operations. They also include the staff in nursing and medical administration. These are nurses or doctors who are employed as managers specifically because of their professional training. It is difficult to decide in these cases whether this work is more closely aligned to the provision of health care or to administration. It has been included in the administrative category here.
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