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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 11 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 3556 ..

. At the end of September 1998, there were 4,859 persons listed on the waiting list and of these, 1,429 or just under 30% were waiting longer than clinically desirable. The number for each category were as follows:

Number Number of %
on list long waits

Category 1 123 26 21.1

Category 2 1,932 762 39.4

Category 3 2,804 641 22.9

4,859 1,429 29.4

. I can now provide the figures for the end of October 1998 which shows a reduction of 95 in the total number of people waiting

Number Number of %
on list long waits

Category 1 173 21 12.1

Category 2 1,904 839 44.1

Category 3 2,687 623 23.2

4,764 1,483 31.1

. In relation to the Critical and Urgent Treatment (CUT) incentives funding under the Australian Health Care Agreement, l can confirm that the ACT received funding of $8,195,000 in 1997/98 and will receive further funding of $8,233,000 in 1998/99, a total of $16,428,000. I should also again stress that these moneys are not an ongoing component of the recurrent funding available to my Department.

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