Page 3654 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 15 October 1991
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Mrs Nolan: They just screamed a bit louder.
MR WOOD: Not at all, Mrs Nolan. The first approach from the Hackett community goes back to the time the Government was returned. They ran a survey, to which I am now going to respond. The argument about Cook and Lyons and their approaches goes back much, much further, as you would know, in the history of events.
Clinical Indicators
MRS GRASSBY: My question is to the Minister for Health. What are the clinical indicators and what measures are being taken within the ACT public hospital system to implement their uses?
Mr Jensen: How about a ministerial statement? They come later.
Mr Humphries: I thought you were not in favour of dorothy dixers.
MR BERRY: The development of clinical indicators aims to provide an objective measurement - - -
Mr Kaine: He has only a four-page statement, too; it is not bad!
MR BERRY: You should be interested in this; it is about the public hospital system in which the people of the ACT receive services. You should be patient and just listen to the answer, because I am sure that you will learn something from this.
MR SPEAKER: Order, members, please! Order! Mr Berry, please get to the answer.
Mr Kaine: I am very interested. He has a four-page answer to a question without notice, Mr Speaker.
MR BERRY: And, Mr Speaker, he is taking up valuable question time with his interjections.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: The development of clinical indicators aims to provide an objective measurement of either the process or the outcome of patient care in quantitative terms. There are two types of clinical indicators - rate based and what are described as sentinel events.
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