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MINISTER FOR HEALTH, EDUCATION AND THE ARTS

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

Royal Canberra Hospital Patients

QUESTION NO 249

MR BERRY - Asked the Minister for Health, Education and

the Arts on notice on 16 August 1990

Since the hospital redevelopment is to take 3-5 years, and since the new diagnostic treatment block will take one year to design and two years to construct where will the Minister put patients at the end of 1991 when the Royal Canberra Hospital closes.

MR HUMPHRIES - The answer to Mr Berrys question is as follows:

The final program for the transfer of services from Royal Canberra Hospital has not yet been agreed and some options which may improve the transitional arrangements are still being explored.

However, there is at present significant underutilisation of space at Calvary and to some extent at Woden. The transfer of Royal Canberra Hospital services can in fact be accommodated by the expansion of Calvary, an additional 160 beds, the opening of a new psychiatric block at Woden and the use of existing vacant facilities. In the existing program, outpatient clinics and the cafeteria would be temporarily located in demountables.

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