Page 1349 - Week 07 - Thursday, 24 August 1989
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Royal Adelaide Hospital, to conduct an independent review of ACT health services. Dr Kearney reported to the Minister in November 1988 after a period of widespread consultation and detailed review.
A major recommendation of his report was the adoption in the ACT of a one principal hospital concept as the basis for restructuring public hospital services. Dr Kearney described this concept in terms of the provision of a major referral centre of 600 to 700 beds, supported by a district/community hospital of 250 to 300 beds.
The report also recommended: that a steering committee, comprising members of the proposed interim board of directors of the Royal Canberra and Woden Valley hospitals, and the ACT Community and Health Service be established to review the options of implementing the one principal hospital concept; that a study be commissioned as a matter of urgency to develop options for implementing the one principal hospital concept; that these options include redeveloping Royal Canberra Hospital with all major super-specialties, maintaining Woden Valley Hospital as the district/community hospital, and closing Calvary as a public hospital; developing Woden Valley Hospital as the principal hospital, maintaining Royal Canberra Hospital as a district/community hospital and closing Calvary as a public hospital; developing Woden Valley Hospital as the principal hospital, developing Calvary as the district/community hospital and closing Royal Canberra Hospital; and that the steering committee recommend its preferred options on the principal and district or community hospital mix by September 1989.
Mr Holding moved immediately to establish such a steering committee and later appointed the following membership: Mr John Bissett, the general manager of the ACT Community and Health Service as the chairman; Mr Alan Woods, the chairman of the Royal Canberra and Woden Valley Hospitals interim board of directors as deputy chairman; Dr Tony Clarke, the director of the Royal Canberra and Woden Valley hospitals interim board of directors; Mr Len Withers, the director of the Royal Canberra and Woden Valley hospitals interim board of directors; Mr Laurie Daniels, the deputy chairman of the Calvary board of management; Mr Allan Hicks, the executive manager of the ACT public hospital redevelopment project, ACT Community and Health Service; Dr Vin McLoughlin, the assistant general manager, policy planning and resource management, ACT Community and Health Service; Dr Richard Madden, division head, ACT Treasury; Dr Robert Care, director, infrastructure division, Office of City Management; Mr John Collins, assistant secretary, policy development branch, ACT Administration.
I expanded the membership of that committee in July 1989 to include Mr Charles McDonald, secretary/treasurer of the ACT Trades and Labour Council, and Ms Prue Power, secretary of the Australian Nurses Federation, ACT Branch, as representatives of the ACT trade union movement.
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