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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 11 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 3557 ..

. The variation to schedule E of the ACT Medicare Agreement under which the CUT funding was provided in 1997/98 indicates that the funding was to ... "assist States in reducing waiting times for public access to elective surgery".

. Funds of just over $5.0M have already been committed against CUT funding. The projects are:

$1.5 million for the purchase of additional elective surgery throughput (mainly orthopaedic surgery) from the Calvary Public Hospital;

$170,000 for the purchase of additional elective plastic surgery throughput from Lidia Perin Hospital;

$2.4 million for the purchase of surgical instrument;

$250,000 for the recruitment and retention of mental health nurses;

$180,000 for an asthma research program;

$500,000 To The Canberra Hospital's Intensive Care Unit pending the review currently being undertaken;

$25,000 for the waiting times and waiting lists consultancy.

. In addition to this, an offer of $3M ($1.7M CUT funding and $1.3M ACT funding) has been made to The Canberra Hospital for the purchase of additional surgical throughput. As pointed out previously, The Canberra Hospital has not yet been in a position to accept this funding, the reasons for which will be addressed under my response to a question taken on notice on 26 November 1998.

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