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MINISTER FOR HEALTH

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NUMBER 625

Health Portfolio - Consultants

Mr Kaine - Asked the Minister for Health:

With reference to your answer to question No. 556(1)(b) of 17 September 1991 -

(1) What are the public relations tasks for ACT Health being undertaken by KIZCLIP Pty Ltd and COMMUNIQUE Solutions.

(2) Are these ACT-based public relations companies and if not, why were local companies not selected for the tasks.

(3) Payments made to KIZCLIP Pty Ltd ($7,833) and COMMUNIQUE Solutions ($8,000) are shown as payments only to 31 July 1991. Are both consultancies still ongoing and; if so, how much in fees has been paid to 31 October 1991 and how much longer will they be contracted to ACT Health.

(4) If their tasks are completed, how much in total fees was paid to each consultancy.

Mr Berry - The answer to the Members question is as follows:

(1) KIZCLIP Pty Ltd was contracted by the previous Acting General Manager of Woden Valley Hospital to provide services associated with the "Managing Organisational Change" process which is a part of the Principal Hospital Redevelopment Project. Functions included information to staff. This contract is due to expire at the end of this financial year. ,

COMMUNIQUE SOLUTIONS performs functions as follows:

(a) 50% of the time used as part of the "Management of Organisational Change" team and

(b) 50% of the time used to provide general public

relations services for Woden Valley Hospital.

The previous Acting General Manager of Woden Valley Hospital was of the view that under normal circumstances, the full-time permanent public relations position which had been allocated to the Hospital was not really necessary. It was only the

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