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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

Minister for Health

Legislative Assembly Question

HOSPITAL REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT

Mr Humphries - asked the Minister for Health on Notice on 6 August 1991:

1 Has the Minister made any decision which affect the master

development control plan for the hospital redevelopment

project.

2 If so, what are these decisions.

3 What advice was sought from what groups before these.

decisions were made.

4 If no decisions have been made which affect the master

development control plan, does the Minister intend to vary

the plan in the near future. If so, why and in what way.

Mr Berry - the answer to Mr Humphries question is as follows

1 Yes.

2 A range of non-acute health services will be located at Acton -

rehabilitation and aged care, convalescence and hospice

facilities, and the Queen Elizabeth II home for mothers and

babies. The hospice has been included in the 1991/92 forward

design program. Nursing home facilities are also being

considered.

3 A Project Team of consultants and officers from the Board of

Health, Calvary and Royal Canberra Hospitals, ACT Treasury

carried out a review of the Alliance Governments Hospitals

Redevelopment Project under the direction of an

independent Steering Committee.

4 The Board of Health is currently developing proposals to

locate a range of non-acute public health facilities at Acton for

the Governments consideration: These include

rehabilitation and- aged care services, a convalescent facility, a

hospice, the Queen Elizabeth II home for mothers and babies,

and nursing home facilities.

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